39 cadets graduated
Cadets who served in the Civil War
Christopher Columbus Augur | ![]() |
16 | Major General | |
Henry F. Clarke | ![]() |
12 | Colonel | |
Frederick Tracy Dent | ![]() |
33 | Brigadier General | |
William Buell Franklin | ![]() |
1 | Major General | |
Samuel Gibbs French | ![]() |
14 | Major General | |
Franklin Gardner | ![]() |
17 | Major General | |
Ulysses Simpson Grant | ![]() |
21 | Lieutenant General | |
Charles Smith Hamilton | ![]() |
26 | Major General | |
James Allen Hardie | ![]() |
11 | Brigadier General | Not confirmed by Senate and revoked |
Edmunds B. Holloway | ![]() |
19 | Colonel | Killed near Independence, Mo. May 1861 |
Rufus Ingalls | ![]() |
32 | Brigadier General | |
Henry Moses Judah | ![]() |
35 | Brigadier General | |
John C. McFerran | ![]() |
34 | Colonel | |
John James Peck | ![]() |
8 | Major General | |
Joseph Haydn Potter | ![]() |
22 | Brigadier General | |
Isaac Ferdinand Quinby | ![]() |
6 | Brigadier General | |
William F. Raynolds | ![]() |
5 | Colonel | |
Joseph Jones Reynolds | ![]() |
10 | Major General | |
Roswell Sabine Ripley | ![]() |
7 | Brigadier General | |
Henry R. Selden | ![]() |
31 | Colonel | Died of disease at Fort Union, N.M. Feb. 1865 |
Frederick Steele | ![]() |
30 | Major General |
Cadets who did not serve in the Civil War
Thomas J. Brereton | 3 | Resigned 1858 | |
Jacob J. Booker | 13 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty, San Antonio, Tex., 1849 |
Theodore L. Chadbourne | 15 | Second Lieutenant | Killed at Resaca de la Palma, 1846 |
Cave J. Couts | 37 | Resigned 1851 | |
A. St. Amand Crozet | 28 | First Lieutenant | Died on sick leave 1855 |
George Deshon | 2 | Resigned 1851 | |
Norman Elting | 36 | Resigned 1846 | |
John H. Grelaud | 4 | Captain | Died on duty at Ft. McRee, Fla., 1857 |
Robert Hazlitt | 23 | Second Lieutenant | Killed at Monterey, 1846 |
Edwin Howe | 24 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., 1850 |
Charles E. Jarvis | 29 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty, Sonoma, Cal., 1849 |
John P. Johnstone | 9 | First Lieutenant | Killed at Battle of Contretras, 1847 |
George C. McClelland | 39 | Cashiered for drunkeness and conduct 1847 | |
Charles G. Merchant | 38 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty East Pascagoula, Ms. 1855 |
Lewis Neill | 20 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty, Ft. Croghan, Tex., 1850 |
George Stevens | 18 | Second Lieutenant | Drowned on duty in the Rio Grande, 1846 |
Lafayette B. Wood | 25 | Captain | Died on duty, Washington, 1858 |
William K. Van Bokkelen | 27 | Captain | Cashiered for misapplication of funds 1853 |
Main West Point Officers page with list of class years
Alphabetical Index of West Point Officers in the Civil War
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