33 cadets graduated
Cadets who served in the Civil War
Robert E. Clary | ![]() |
13 | Colonel USA | Quartermaster staff |
Jefferson Davis | ![]() |
23 | President | |
Thomas Fenwick Drayton | ![]() |
28 | Brigadier General | |
Joseph L. Locke | ![]() |
8 | Major | Died of disease at Savannah, Oct. 1864 |
Hugh Weedon Mercer | ![]() |
3 | Brigadier General | |
Richard Tilghman | ![]() |
2 | Lt. Colonel* | *rank in Maryland militia |
Crafts J. Wright | ![]() |
31 | Colonel USV | Resigned due to illness Sep. 1862 |
Cadets who did not serve in the Civil War
Thomas B. Adams | 12 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty at Ft. Dade, Fl. 1837 |
Ivers J. Austin | 6 | Resigned 1828 | |
William H. Baker | 19 | Resigned 1831, died 1835 | |
Thomas C. Brockway | 29 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty at Ft. Gibson, Indian Terr., 1831 |
George E. Chase | 9 | Resigned 1833, died 1844 | |
Albert E. Church | 1 | Professor of Mathmatics, USMA | |
Samuel K. Cobb | 25 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty at New Orleans, 1834 |
Charles O. Colline | 5 | Captain | Died on duty Ft. Gibson, Indian Terr., 1846 |
Thomas Cutts | 18 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty at Ft. Jesup, La., 1838 |
Amos Foster | 27 | Second Lieutenant | Lilled by a soldier at Ft. Howard, Wis., 1832 |
Edmund French | 7 | Resigned 1828, died 1860 | |
John R.B. Gardenier | 30 | Captain | Died on sick leave 1850 |
James Izard | 17 | First Lieutenant | Mortally wounded on Withlacoochee River, Fl., 1836 |
Benjamin W. Kinsman | 22 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty at Ft. Gibson, Indian Terr., 1832 |
John F. Lane | 10 | Captain | Died on duty at Ft. Drane Fl., Oct. 1836 |
William W. Mather | 15 | Resigned 1836, died 1859 | |
Enos J. Mitchell | 16 | Captain | Died on duty at Ft. Roger Jones, Fl., 1839 |
William L.E. Morrison | 24 | Resigned 1830, died 1834 or 1835 | |
William Palmer | 11 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty at Ft. Johnston, N.C. 1835 |
James W. Penrose | 32 | Captain | Died on duty at Plattsburg, N.Y. 1849 |
Gustave S. Rousseau | 21 | Disbanded 1846 | |
Robert Sevier | 14 | Resigned 1837 | |
Robert E. Temple | 4 | Disbanded 1848, died 1854 | |
James L. Thompson | 20 | Resigned 1846, drowned in Detroit River 1851 | |
Samuel Torrence | 26 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty at Ft. Armstrong, Il., 1832 |
Philip R. Van Wyck | 33 | Not commissioned due to deafness; drowned 1832 |
Main West Point Officers page with list of class years
Alphabetical Index of West Point Officers in the Civil War
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