50 officers graduated in the West Point Class of 1837
21 served in the Civil War
Class of 1837 members who served in the Civil War
For Federal officers indicated rank is as U.S. Volunteers unless shown as “USA,” which indicates rank in the Regular U.S. Army.
| Lewis Golding Arnold |  |
10 | Brigadier General USV | |
| Joshua Bates | |
25 | Brigadier General* | *rank in Ohio militia |
| Henry Washington Benham | |
1 | Brigadier General USV | |
| Edmund Bradford |  |
19 | Major | |
| Braxton Bragg | |
5 | General | |
| Robert Hall Chilton | |
48 | Brigadier General | |
| Alexander Brydie Dyer | |
6 | Brigadier General | |
| Jubal Anderson Early | |
18 | Lieutenant General | |
| Arnold Elzey (Jones) | |
33 | Major General | |
| William Henry French | |
22 | Major General USV | |
| William G. Grandin | |
44 | Captain USA | Revoked by President Feb. 1863, died Aug. 1863 |
| Bennett H. Hill | |
21 | Lt. Colonel USA | |
| Joseph Hooker | |
29 | Major General USV | |
| Robert Tignall Jones | |
13 | Colonel | Killed at Fair Oaks, Va., May 1862 |
| William Whann Mackall | |
8 | Major General | |
| John Clifford Pemberton | |
27 | Lieutenant General | |
| Henry C. Pratt | |
20 | Major USA | |
| Arthur Middleton Rutledge | |
32 | Major | |
| Eliakim Parker Scammon | |
9 | Major General USV | |
| John Sedgwick (bio) | |
24 | Major General USV | Killed at Spotsylvania 1864. Monuments at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania |
| John Blair Smith Todd | |
39 | Brigadier General USV | |
| Edward D. Townsend | |
16 | Brigadier General USA | |
| Israel Vogdes | |
11 | Brigadier General USV | |
| William Henry Talbot Walker | |
46 | Major General | |
| Thomas Williams | |
12 | Brigadier General USV | Killed at Baton Rouge, August 1862 |
| Samuel Woods | |
36 | Major USA | Paymaster staff |
| Francis O. Wyse | |
43 | Lt. Colonel USA |
Cadets who did not participate in the Civil War
| William Armstrong | 28 | Captain | Killed at Molino del Rey, Mexico 1847 |
| John Bratt | 4 | Resigned 1837 | |
| William W. Chapman | 7 | Captain | Died on duty, Ft. Monroe, Va., 1859 |
| Levi P. Davidson | 47 | First Lieutenant | Died on sick leave 1842 |
| William H. Fowler | 35 | Captain | Died on duty, Ft. Myers, Fla., 1851 |
| A. Park Gregory | 15 | Resigned 1838, died 1840 | |
| John W. Gunnison | 2 | Captain | Survey party massacred near Sevier Lake Ut. 1853 |
| William Hardia | 49 | Dismissed for habitual drunkeness 1840, died 1842 | |
| John M. Harvie | 30 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty, Cedar Keys, Fla., 1841 |
| Nevil Hopson | 45 | Dismissed for drunkeness 1846, died 1847 | |
| William T. Martin | 17 | Resigned 1838 | |
| Robert M. McLane | 37 | Resigned 1843 | |
| Samuel D.J. Moore | 41 | Declined appointment in army on graduation | |
| Edwin W. Morgan | 3 | Resigned 1839 | |
| Randolph Ridgely | 42 | First Lieutenant | Killed in riding accident, Monterey, Mexico 1846 |
| George C. Rodney | 26 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty St. Augustine, Fla., 1839 |
| Franklin Saunders | 50 | Resigned 1838, died 1856 | |
| Walter Sherwood | 38 | Second Lieutenant | Killed near Ft. Micanopy, Fla., 1840 |
| Edward J. Steptoe | 34 | Resigned Nov. 1861 | |
| James R. Soley | 40 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Troy, N.Y., 1845 |
| George Taylor | 23 | Captain | Drowned in wreck of S.S. San Francisco 1853 |
| Francis Woodbridge | 14 | Captain | Died on duty Barrancas Barracks, Fla., 1855 |
| Charles F. Wooster | 31 | Captain | Died on duty Ft. Brown, Texas, 1856 |
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