50 officers graduated in the West Point Class of 1841
34 served in the Civil War
Class of 1841 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.
| Harvey A. Allen |  |
15 | Major USA | |
| Samuel S. Anderson |  |
18 | Colonel | |
| John Beardsley | |
36 | Colonel | |
| Andrew W. Bowman | |
40 | Major USA | |
| John Milton Brannan | |
23 | Brigadier General | |
| William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks | |
46 | Major General | |
| Don Carlos Buell | |
32 | Major General | |
| Abraham Buford | |
51 | Brigadier General | |
| Alexander C.H. Darne | |
45 | Major* | *Maryland militia |
| Sewall L. Fremont | |
17 | Colonel | |
| Franklin F. Flint | |
35 | Lt. Colonel USA | |
| Julius P. Garesché | |
16 | Lieutenant Colonel | Killed Stone River, Tenn., Dec. 1862 |
| Richard Brooke Garnett | |
29 | Brigadier General | Killed Gettysburg, Pa. July 1863 |
| Robert S. Garnett | |
27 | Brigadier General | Killed Carruck’s Ford, W.V., July 1861 |
| Josiah Gorgas | |
6 | Brigadier General | |
| Schuyler Hamilton | |
24 | Major General | |
| Albion Parris Howe | |
8 | Major General | |
| John Marshall Jones | |
39 | Brigadier General | Killed at the Wilderness, 5/64 |
| Samuel Jones | |
19 | Major General | |
| John Love | |
14 | Major | Major General of Indiana State Militia |
| Nathaniel Lyon | |
11 | Major General | Died at Wilson’s Creek |
| Edward Murray | |
41 | Lieutenant Colonel | |
| Anderson D. Nelson | |
43 | Major USA | |
| Joseph Bennett Plummer | |
22 | Brigadier General | Died 8/9/62 from Wilson’s Creek wounds |
| John Fulton Reynolds | |
26 | Major General | Killed at Gettysburg; monuments at Gettysburg |
| Israel Bush Richardson | |
38 | Major General | Mortally wounded at Antietam; monument at Antietam. |
| Thomas J. Rodman | |
7 | Major USA | Ordnance |
| Claudius Wistar Sears | |
31 | Brigadier General | |
| Smith Stansbury | |
4 | Major | Died on duty, Canada, Apr. 1864 |
| Alfred Sully | |
34 | Brigadier General | |
| James Totten | |
25 | Brigadier General | |
| Zealous Bates Tower | |
1 | Brigadier General | |
| Horatio Gouverneur Wright | |
2 | Major General | |
| Amiel Weeks Whipple | |
5 | Brigadier General | Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville |
Cadets who did not participate in the Civil War
| George W. Ayers | 10 | First Lieutenant | Killed, Molino del Rey, Mexico, Sep. 1847 |
| Richard H. Bacot | 30 | Resigned 1843, died in S.C. Aug. 1862 | |
| Benjamin Berry | 44 | Second Lieutenant | Killed, boiler explosion Aransas Bay, Tex., 1842 |
| John G. Burbank | 33 | First Lieutenant | Mortally wounded Molino del Rey, Mexico, 1847 |
| Patrick Calhoun | 37 | Captain | Died on sick leave 1858 |
| Rudolph F. Ernst | 50 | Second Lieutenant | Mortally wounded Molino del Ray, Mex. 1847 |
| Simon S. Fahnestock | 20 | Resigned 1850 | |
| Levi Gantt | 48 | First Lieutenant | Killed at Chapultepec, Mexico, 1847 |
| Masillon Harrison | 3 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty at Ft. Schyler, N.Y., 1854 |
| Richard P. Hammond | 21 | Resigned 1851 | |
| Joseph Irons | 12 | First Lieutenant | Mortally wounded Churubusco, Mexico, 1847. |
| Leonidas Jenkins | 13 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty, Vera Cruz, Mexico 1847 |
| Elias K. Kane | 47 | Captain | Died on sick leave 1853 |
| Philip W. Macdonald | 9 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty at New Orleans, 1851 |
| Charles F. Morris | 52 | First Lieutenant | Mortally wounded Molino del Ray, Mex. 1847 |
| Francis N. Page | 42 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Smith, Ark. 1860 |
| Robert B. Parker | 28 | Second Lieutenant | Died on sick leave 1842 |
| Mortimer Rosecrants | 49 | First Lieutenant | Died on sick leave 1848 |
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