49 officers graduated in the West Point Class of 1856
44 served in the Civil War
Class of 1856 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.
| Frank Armistead |  |
34 | Colonel | Killed at Bentonville, March 1865 |
| Guilford D. Bailey |  |
17 | Colonel | Killed, Fair Oaks, May 1862 |
| Edmund C. Bainbridge | |
20 | Major | |
| John W. Barringer | |
13 | Major USA | Commissary staff |
| George Dashiell Bayard | |
11 | Brigadier General | Mortally wounded, Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862 |
| Herman Biggs | |
35 | Lieutenant Colonel | Quartermaster Staff |
| Samuel Sprigg Carroll | |
44 | Brigadier General | |
| Arthur S. Cunningham | |
48 | Lieutenant Colonel | |
| Herbert M. Enos | |
48 | Colonel | Quartermaster Staff |
| William T. Gentry | |
36 | Captain USA | Staff |
| Jeremiah H. Gilman | |
24 | Captain USA | Artillery & Commissary Staff |
| Henry V. De Hart | |
5 | Captain USA | Mortally wounded, Gaines’ Mill, June, 1862 |
| James William Forsyth | |
28 | Lieutenant Colonel | Staff |
| Herbert A. Hascall | |
8 | Captain USA | Artillery |
| David C. Houston | |
2 | Major | Engineer |
| J. McLean Hildt | |
46 | Captain USA | |
| William B. Hughes | |
43 | Captain USA | Quartermaster staff |
| George Jackson | |
30 | Major | |
| William Hicks Jackson | |
38 | Brigadier General | |
| Charles Cochrane Lee | |
4 | Colonel | Killed Battle of Glendale, June 1862 |
| Fitzhugh Lee | |
45 | Major General | Major General USV in Spanish-American War |
| Richard Lodor | |
22 | Lieutenant Colonel | Staff |
| Lunsford Lomax | |
21 | Major General | |
| Lorenzo Lorain | |
14 | Captain USA | Artillery |
| Robert S.C. Lord | |
40 | Captain USA | |
| Hylan Benton Lyon | |
19 | Brigadier General | |
| James Patrick Major | |
23 | Brigadier General | |
| Miles D. McAlester | |
3 | Captain USA | Corps of Engineers |
| Owen K. McLemore | |
39 | Lieutenant Colonel | Killed at South Mountain September 1862 |
| James McMillan | |
42 | Captain USA | |
| Thomas E. Miller | |
25 | 1st Lieutenant USA | Retired from active servce due to disease 1862 |
| John K. Mizner | |
33 | Colonel | |
| Wesley Owens | |
16 | Lieutenant Colonel | |
| Orlando Metcalf Poe | |
6 | Brigadier General | |
| A. Parker Porter | |
9 | Lieutenant Colonel USA | Quartermaster and Commisary Staff |
| John F. Ritter | |
32 | Colonel | |
| William Price Sanders | |
41 | Brigadier General | Mortally wounded Campbell’s Station, Nov. 1863 |
| John Brognard Shinn | |
18 | Captain USA | Artillery |
| George W. Snyder | |
1 | First Lieutenant USA | Died of disease November 1861 |
| Charles B. Stivers | |
26 | Captain USA | Retired from active servce due to disability 1864 |
| Thomas Crook Sullivan | |
12 | Lieutenant Colonel USA | Commissary Staff |
| Joseph H. Taylor | |
31 | Lieutenant Colonel | Staff |
| Francis Laurens Vinton | |
10 | Brigadier General | |
| Thomas W. Walker | |
29 | Captain USA | Retired from active servce due to disease 1863 |
Class members who did not serve in the Civil War
| James B.S. Alexander | 37 | Resigned May 1861, died August 1861 | |
| John Bennett | 15 | Second Lieutenant | Died on Duty Ft. Brown, Texas 1859 |
| Brayton C. Ives | 47 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Clark, Texas 1857 |
| William Gaston | 27 | Second Lieutenant | Killed in fight with indians, Washington, 1858 |
| Henry M. Tipton | 7 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty, Benicia, Cal. 1861 |
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