59 cadets graduated
Class members who served in the Civil War
John Adams | ![]() |
25 | Brigadier General | Killed at Franklin |
Charles E. Blunt | ![]() |
3 | Major USA | |
Edward Carlisle Boynton | ![]() |
12 | Captain USA | Adjutant & Quartermaster at West Point |
John A. Brown | ![]() |
16 | Lieutenant Colonel | |
Darius Nash Couch | ![]() |
13 | Major General | |
Nelson H. Davis | ![]() |
49 | Colonel USA | |
William Dutton | ![]() |
15 | Colonel | Died 1862 |
Delancy Floyd-Jones | ![]() |
45 | Lt. Colonel USA | |
Birkett D. Fry | ![]() |
— | Brigadier General | dismissed |
William Montgomery Gardner | ![]() |
55 | Brigadier General | |
Alfred Gibbs | ![]() |
42 | Brigadier General | |
Charles Champion Gilbert | ![]() |
21 | Brigadier General | Acting Major General not confirmed by the Senate. |
George Henry Gordon | ![]() |
43 | Major General | |
John Gray Foster | ![]() |
4 | Major General | |
Thomas Jonathan Jackson | ![]() |
17 | Lieutenant General | Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, May 1863, commanding 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. |
David Rumph Jones | ![]() |
41 | Major General | Died of heart disease 1863 |
Albert L. Magilton | ![]() |
18 | Colonel | |
George Brinton McClellan | ![]() |
2 | Major General | |
Dabney Herndon Maury | ![]() |
37 | Major General | |
Samuel Bell Maxey | ![]() |
58 | Major General | |
Frederick Myers | ![]() |
44 | Major USA | |
James Oakes | ![]() |
34 | Brigadier General | |
Innis Newton Palmer | ![]() |
38 | Brigadier General | |
George Edward Pickett | ![]() |
59 | Major General | |
Jesse Lee Reno | ![]() |
8 | Major General | Mortally wounded commanding 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac at South Mountain 1862 |
Richard Rush | ![]() |
26 | Colonel | |
Truman Seymour | ![]() |
19 | Major General | |
Marcus D.L. Simpson | ![]() |
22 | Major USA | Commissary officer |
Matthew R. Stevenson | ![]() |
51 | Captain USA | Died on sick leave, Sackett’s Harbor, N.Y. January 1863 |
Charles Seaforth Stewart | ![]() |
1 | Major USA | Corps of Engineers |
George Stoneman | ![]() |
33 | Major General | |
Samuel Davis Sturgis | ![]() |
32 | Major General | |
William Duncan Smith | ![]() |
35 | Brigadier General | Died of Yellow Fever, Charleston 1862 |
Parmenas T. Turnley | ![]() |
40 | Captain | Disabled and retired 1863 |
Joseph N.G. Whistler | ![]() |
47 | Colonel | |
John D. Wilkins | ![]() |
46 | Major USA | |
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox | ![]() |
54 | Major General |
Class members who did not serve in the Civil War
Rufus Bacon | 23 | Committed suicide 1846 |
Francis T. Bryan | 6 | Resigned at outbreak of war |
Archibald Botts | 57 | Died in Mexico 1847 |
Thomas F. Castor | 28 | Died on duty at Fort Tejon California 1855 |
Orren Chapman | 29 | Died on duty at Fort Buchanan, New Mexico 1859 |
George H. Derby | 7 | Died on sick leave 1861, a well-known humorist |
Thomas Easley | 48 | Killed in the Mexican War 1847 |
Henry Astor Ehninger | 27 | Resigned 1849 |
George F. Evans | 36 | Died on sick leave, 1859 |
Edmund L. Hardcastle | 5 | Resigned from the Army 1856 |
Edmund Hayes | 11 | Died on duty at sea 1853 |
George S. Humphrets | 52 | Died at Carlisle Barracks Cavalry School, 1847 |
Thomas J. Lowe | — | dismissed |
Thomas R. McConnell | 50 | Resigned 1856. Died Mobile, Alabama April 1861. |
Colville J. Minor | 20 | Died at Monterey during Mexican War |
Samuel H. Raymond | — | Died at West Point 1845 |
Alexander P. Rodgers | 30 | Killed in the Mexican War 1847 |
Edmund Russel | 56 | Killed in California in skirmish with indians |
Henry B. Sears | 14 | Resigned 1849. Engineer in Liverpool during war |
Hamilton Shields | 24 | Resigned 1854. Farmer in Vermont during war |
James Stuart | 39 | Mortally wounded in Indian wars, Oregon, 1851 |
Oliver H. P. Taylor | 31 | Killed in Indian wars, Utah, 1858 |
William H. Tyler | 52 | Died on leave in in Virginia 1853 |
Thomas Wheedbee | 10 | Died on sick leave 1849 |
Clarendon J. L. Wilson | 9 | Died on duty New Mexico Territory 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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