52 cadets graduated
Cadets who served in the Civil War
Benjamin Allston | ![]() |
26 | Colonel | |
George Bell | ![]() |
14 | Lt. Colonel USA | Commissary staff |
Matthew M. Blunt | ![]() |
8 | Captain USA | |
William Robertson Boggs | ![]() |
4 | Brigadier General | |
John Stevens Bowen | ![]() |
13 | Brigadier General | Died as prisoner after Vicksburg surrender, July 1863 |
Alexander Chambers | ![]() |
43 | Brigadier General | |
John Randolph Chambliss, Jr. | ![]() |
31 | Colonel | |
William Craig | ![]() |
52 | CaptainUSA | Quartermaster staff |
William Price Craighill | ![]() |
2 | Captain USA | Corps of Engineers |
Benjamin F. Chamberlin | ![]() |
27 | Major | |
John G. Chandler | ![]() |
21 | Captain USA | |
Henry Brevard Davidson | ![]() |
33 | Brigadier General | |
Richard C. Duryea | ![]() |
20 | Colonel | |
William McE. Dye | ![]() |
32 | Colonel | |
John H. Edson | ![]() |
28 | Lieutenant Colonel | |
Thomas Hight | ![]() |
9 | Colonel | |
John Bell Hood | ![]() |
44 | Lieutenant General | |
Robert F. Hunter | ![]() |
46 | First Lieutenant USA | Casiered for drunkeness Nov. 1861 |
Walworth Jenkins | ![]() |
23 | Captain USA | |
Edmund C. Jones | ![]() |
42 | Captain USA | Casiered for drunkeness July 1862 |
Thomas M. Jones | ![]() |
47 | Colonel | |
Alfred E. Latimer | ![]() |
38 | Captain USA | |
La Rhett L. Livingston | ![]() |
19 | Captain USA | |
William W. Lowe | ![]() |
30 | Colonel | |
James McIntyre | ![]() |
49 | Captain USA | |
James Birdseye McPherson | ![]() |
1 | Major General | |
Elmer Otis | ![]() |
37 | Major USA | |
Louis H. Pelouze | ![]() |
17 | Lt. Colonel | |
Augustus Plummer | ![]() |
48 | Captain USA | |
Lucius L. Rich | ![]() |
50 | Colonel | Mortally wounded at Shiloh, died in Aug. 1862 |
Reuben Ross | ![]() |
51 | Brigadier General | |
John McAllister Schofield | ![]() |
7 | Major General | |
Philip Henry Sheridan | ![]() |
34 | Major General | |
Francis J. Shunk | ![]() |
5 | Captain USA | Ordnance staff |
Joshua Woodrow Sill | ![]() |
3 | Brigadier General | Killed at Stone River, December 1862 |
Benjamin Franklin Smith | ![]() |
39 | Colonel | |
James Argyle Smith | ![]() |
45 | Brigadier General | |
William Sooy Smith | ![]() |
6 | Brigadier General | |
N. Bowman Sweitzer | ![]() |
24 | Lieutenant Colonel | |
Henry C. Symonds | ![]() |
12 | Major USA | |
William Rufus Terrill | ![]() |
16 | Brigadier General | Killed at Perryville, 1862 |
Robert Ogden Tyler | ![]() |
22 | Brigadier General | |
Thomas R. Vincent | ![]() |
11 | Major USA | |
Henry Harrison Walker | ![]() |
41 | Brigadier General | |
William A. Webb | ![]() |
35 | Colonel | died on duty Smithton, Mo., Dec. 1861 |
Thomas Wilson | ![]() |
29 | Captain USA | Commissary staff |
James L. White | ![]() |
25 | Major |
Cadets who did not serve in the Civil War
George R. Bissel | 10 | First Lieutenant | Resigned 1856 |
James D. Burns | 15 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Baton Rouge, La., 1854 |
John L. Grattan | 36 | Second Lieutenant | Killed in the Grattan Massacre near Ft. Laramie, 1853 |
Silas P. Higgins | 40 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Yuma, Cal. 1860 |
Owen F. Solomon | 18 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Laramie, Dakota Terr., 1859 |
Main West Point Officers page with list of class years
Alphabetical Index of West Point Officers in the Civil War
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