45 cadets graduated
Cadets who served in the Civil War
List includes name, allegiance, class rank, highest rank held in the war, and other information.
William Austime | ![]() |
25 | Major USA | |
William Farquar Barry | ![]() |
17 | Brigadier General USV | |
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard | ![]() |
2 | General | |
William R. Blair | ![]() |
11 | Major | |
Buckner Board | ![]() |
10 | Colonel USV | |
Langdon C. Easton | ![]() |
22 | Colonel USV | |
Robert Seaman Granger | ![]() |
28 | Brigadier General USV | |
William Joseph Hardee | ![]() |
26 | Lieutenant General | |
Milton Haynes | ![]() |
18 | Lt. Colonel | |
Edward Johnston | ![]() |
32 | Major General | |
Irvin McDowell | ![]() |
23 | Major General USV | |
Justus McKinstry | ![]() |
40 | Brigadier General USV | Dismissed January 1863 |
William A. Nicholls | ![]() |
19 | Colonel SV | |
Owen P. Ransom | ![]() |
29 | Colonel USV | |
Alexander Welch Reynolds | ![]() |
35 | Brigadier General | |
Charles F. Ruff | ![]() |
44 | Lt. Colonel USA | |
Henry Hopkins Sibley | ![]() |
31 | Brigadier General | |
Andrew Jackson Smith | ![]() |
36 | Major General USV | |
Carter Littlepage Stevenson | ![]() |
42 | Major General | |
James Heyward Trapier | ![]() |
3 | Brigadier General | |
Henry Constantine Wayne | ![]() |
14 | Brigadier General |
Cadets who did not serve in the Civil War
Ripley A. Arnold | 33 | Captain | Murdered on duty at Ft. Graham, Texas, 1853 |
Stephen H. Campbell | 4 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Jacksonville, Fla., 1845 |
Thomas Casey | 8 | Resigned 1839, died 1847 | |
Leslie Chase | 21 | Captain | Died on duty, Ft. Johnston, N.C., 1847 |
Robert M. Cochran | 39 | Cashiered for drunkeness, 1844, killed 1847 | |
Alexander H. Dearborn | 6 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Mt. Vernon Arsenal, Al., 1853 |
Constant Freeman | 34 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty at Ft. Wayne, Indian Terr., 1839 |
John C. Fletcher | 20 | Resigned 1840 | |
Richard H. Graham | 43 | First Lieutenant | Mortally wounded Monterey, Mexico, 1846 |
Charles J. Hughes | 37 | Second Lieutenant | Died near Ft. Brooke, Fla. 1839 |
William Hulbert | 38 | Second Lieutenant | Killed by Seminoles near Ft. Brooke, Fla., 1839 |
Zebulon M.P. Inge | 45 | First Lieutenant | Kiled at Resaca de la Palma, Mexico, 1846 |
Rowley S. Jennings | 24 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty near St. Augustine, Fla., 1839 |
James M. Ketchum | 13 | Resigned 1844, died 1844 | |
John H. Matthews | 30 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty, Camp Worth, Texas, 1838 |
Hamilton W. Merrill | 27 | Resigned 1857 | |
John T. Metcalfe | 7 | Resigned 1840 | |
Ferdinand S. Mumford | 41 | Resigned 1849 | |
Lucius Pitkin | 15 | Rsigned 1844 | |
Isaac S.K. Reeves | 9 | Captain | Died on sick leave 1851 |
Thomas Lee Ringgold | 12 | Captain | Died on duty at Washington, 1854 |
Jeremiah Mason Scarritt | 5 | Captain | Died on duty, Key West, Fla., 1854 |
William H. Shover | 16 | Captain | Died on duty at West Point, 1850 |
William H, Wright | 1 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Wilmington, N.C. 1845 |
Main West Point Officers page with list of class years
Alphabetical Index of West Point Officers in the Civil War
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