42 officers graduated in the West Point Class of 1840
25 served in the Civil War
Class of 1840 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.
| James N. Caldwell |  |
25 | Major USA | |
| Reuben P. Campbell |  |
27 | Colonel | Killed at Gaines’ Mill, Va., June 1862 |
| Stephen D. Carpenter | |
35 | Major USA | Killed at Stone River, Tenn., Dec. 1862 |
| Francis N. Clark | |
11 | Major USA | |
| Richard Stoddert Ewell | |
13 | Lieutenant General | Brother to Benjamin Ewell (USMA ’32) |
| John W.T. Gardiner | |
26 | Major USA | |
| George Washington Getty | |
15 | Major General | |
| William Gilham | |
5 | Colonel | |
| William Hays | |
18 | Brigadier General | |
| Paul Octave Hébert | |
1 | Brigadier General | |
| Bushrod Rust Johnson | |
23 | Major General | |
| Thomas Jordan | |
41 | Brigadier General | |
| Charles Peeble Kingsbury | |
2 | Colonel | |
| Pinckney Lugenbeel | |
28 | Major USA | |
| James Green Martin | |
14 | Brigadier General | |
| Robert P. Maclay | |
32 | Brigadier General | |
| John Porter McCown | |
10 | Major General | |
| John McNutt | |
3 | Major USA | Ordnance staff |
| Oliver L. Shepherd | |
33 | Colonel USA | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | |
6 | Major General | |
| William Steele | |
31 | Brigadier General | |
| George Henry Thomas | |
12 | Major General | |
| Stewart Van Vliet | |
9 | Brigadier General | |
| Henry D. Wallen | |
34 | Major USA | |
| Henry Whiting | |
17 | Colonel |
Cadets who did not participate in the war
| John D. Bacon | 42 | First Lieutenant | Mortally wounded Churubusco, Mexico 1847 |
| William H. Churchill | 8 | Captain | Died on duty Point Isabel, Texas 1847 |
| Horace B. Field | 16 | First Lieutenant | Drowned in wreck of S.S. San Francisco, 1853 |
| Joseh L. Folsom | 36 | Captain | Died on leave 1855 |
| Fowler Hamilton | 19 | Captain | Died on duty near Ft. Mason, Texas 1851 |
| Thaddeus Higgins | 21 | Second Lieutenant | Killed in boiler explosion Off Texas, 1845 |
| Charles H. Humber | 24 | Captain | Died on duty, Ft. Smith Ark., 1858 |
| Douglass S. Irwin | 40 | First Lieutenant | Killed Battle of Monterey, Sept. 1846 |
| William B. Johns | 39 | Captain USA | Dropped 1861 for refusing to participate in the war. |
| William P. Jones | 4 | Second Lieutenant | Killed in riding accident Ft. McHenry, Md. 1841 |
| Job R.H. Lancaster | 7 | Second Lieutenant | Killed by lightning on a scout, Fla., 1841 |
| William Robertson | 30 | Resigned 1843 | |
| Daniel G. Rogers | 38 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Vera Cruz, Mexico 1848 |
| Bryan P. Tilden | 20 | Resigned 1848, died 1859 | |
| William G. Torrey | 37 | AWOL 1844, died abroad 1847. | |
| Henry Wardwell | 29 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Dallas, Fla., 1841 |
| Oscar F. Winship | 22 | Captain | Died, Troy, N.Y. 1855 |
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