52 officers graduated in the West Point Class of 1853
47 served in the Civil War
Class of 1853 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.
| 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 | Commanded Army of Tennessee 7/64-1/65 |
| Robert F. Hunter | |
46 | First Lieutenant USA | Cashiered for drunkeness Nov. 1861 |
| Walworth Jenkins | |
23 | Captain USA | |
| Edmund C. Jones | |
42 | Captain USA | Cashiered 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 Stones 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 | Commander, Army of the Potomac Artillery Reserve |
| 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 |
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