50 cadets graduated
Cadets who participated in the Civil War
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 |
Main West Point Officers page with list of class years
Alphabetical Index of West Point Officers in the Civil War
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