43 officers graduated in the West Point Class of 1849
37 served in the Civil War
Class of 1849 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.
| Absalom Baird |  |
9 | Brigadier General USV | |
| Seth Barton |  |
28 | Brigadier General | |
| Stephen V. Benét | |
3 | Captain USA | |
| Milton Cogswell | |
11 | Colonel USV | |
| Alfred Cumming | |
35 | Brigadier General | |
| Beekman Du Berry | |
7 | Major USA | |
| Johnson K. Duncan | |
5 | Brigadier General USV | Died of Typhoid Fever in Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 1862 |
| Thomas English | |
36 | Lt. Colonel USV | |
| John Frasier | |
34 | Brigadier General | |
| Quincy A. Gilmore | |
1 | Major General USV | |
| Duff C. Green | |
29 | unknown | Quartermaster General of Alabama |
| Thomas J. Haines | |
4 | Colonel | |
| Samuel B. Holabird | |
31 | Colonel USV | |
| Edward McK Hudson | |
22 | Lieutenant Colonel USV | |
| Richard W. Johnson | |
30 | Brigadier General USV | |
| John Kellogg | |
16 | Colonel USV | |
| Charles W. Field | |
27 | Major General | |
| Samuel Reynolds | |
42 | Colonel | |
| Beverly H. Robertson | |
25 | Brigadier General | |
| James B. Roy | |
38 | Major USA | |
| William H. Lewis | |
15 | Major USA | |
| Louis H. Marshall | |
41 | Major USA | |
| Joseph M. McArthur | |
37 | Lieutenant Colonel USV | |
| Daniel McClure | |
21 | Major USA | |
| Chauncey McKeever | |
14 | Lieutenant Colonel USV | |
| James McIntosh | |
43 | Brigadier General | Killed at Pea Ridge, Ark., March 1862 |
| John C. Moore | |
17 | Brigadier General | |
| John G. Parke | |
2 | Major General USV | |
| Delavan D. Perkins | |
8 | Lt. Colonel USV | Died of disease Washington, Jan. 1865 |
| Edward R. Platt | |
13 | Lieutenant Colonel USV | |
| Rufus Saxton | |
18 | Brigadier General USV | |
| William Silvey | |
6 | Captain USA | |
| Washington C. Tevis | |
24 | Colonel USV | Discharged July 1864 |
| Joseph L. Tidball | |
26 | Captain USA | Retired from active service Nov. 1861 |
| Thornton A. Washington | |
33 | Major | |
| Thomas G. Williams | |
32 | unknown | Commissary staff |
| John Withers | |
23 | Lieutenant Colonel |
Cadets who did not serve in the Civil War
| Charles B. Alvord | 39 | Resigned 1852, died 1860. | |
| Darius D. Clark | 40 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Yuma, Cal 1859 |
| Horace F. De Lano | 20 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Bliss, Texas 1854 |
| William A. Nimmo | 10 | First Lieutenant | Died on sick leave 1856 |
| Edward D. Stockton | 12 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty San Antonio, Texas, 1857 |
| Thomas Wright | 19 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Randall, Dakota Terr., 18577 |
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