44 officers graduated in the West Point Class of 1856
37 served in the Civil War
Class of 1850 members who served in the Civil War
John W. Alley | ![]() |
32 | Captain USA | Dismissed October 1863 |
Charles D. Anderson | ![]() |
— | Colonel | Did not graduate |
Richard Arnold | ![]() |
13 | Brigadier General | |
Henry C. Bankhead | ![]() |
35 | Captain USA | |
Francis S. Bates | ![]() |
23 | Captain USA | Retired from active service on disability 1863 |
Amos Beckwith | ![]() |
21 | Colonel | |
Thomas Bingham | ![]() |
29 | unknown | Resigned 1854 |
Achilles Bowen | ![]() |
10 | Staff officer | |
William Lewis Cabell | ![]() |
33 | Brigadier General | |
William Passmore Carlin | ![]() |
20 | Brigadier General | |
Eugene Asa Carr | ![]() |
19 | Brigadier General | |
William R. Calhoun | ![]() |
27 | Lieutenant Colonel | Killed in a duel Sept. 1862 |
Robert G. Cole | ![]() |
37 | Lieutenant Colonel | Commissary Staff |
James R. Corley | ![]() |
40 | Lieutenant Colonel | Commissary Staff |
Silas Crispin | ![]() |
3 | Captain USA | Ordnance Staff |
Jacob Culbertson | ![]() |
7 | Captain | |
Frederick M. Follett | ![]() |
43 | Captain | |
Cuvier Grover | ![]() |
4 | Brigadier General | |
Jonas P. Holliday | ![]() |
24 | Colonel | Died on duty near Strasburg, Va. Feb. 1862 |
Robert Johnston | ![]() |
28 | Colonel | |
Armistead Lindsay Long | ![]() |
17 | Colonel | |
Robert MacFeely | ![]() |
31 | Major | Commissary Staff |
Oscar A. Mack | ![]() |
8 | Major USA | |
William T. Magruder | ![]() |
11 | Captain | Died July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg |
Elisha Marshall | ![]() |
25 | Colonel | |
Jean Jaques Alfred Alex. Mouton | ![]() |
38 | Brigadier General | |
N. Partlett Pearce | ![]() |
26 | Brigadier General* | In Arkansas State Forces |
Frederick E. Prime | ![]() |
1 | Major USA | Engineers |
Robert Ransom Jr. | ![]() |
18 | Major General | |
Adam Jacoby Slemmer | ![]() |
12 | Brigadier General | |
Donald C. Stith | ![]() |
44 | Colonel | |
Lucius Marsh Walker | ![]() |
15 | Brigadier General | Mortally wounded in a duel Sept. 1863 |
Gouverneur Kemble Warren | ![]() |
2 | Major General | Monument at Gettysburg. |
Joseph H. Wheelock | ![]() |
6 | Colonel | Died of disease at Washington, April 1862 |
James H. Wilson | ![]() |
34 | Lieutenant Colonel | |
Charles Sidney Winder | ![]() |
22 | Brigadier General | Mortally wounded at Cedar Mountain August 1862 |
Powell T. Wyman | ![]() |
5 | Colonel | Killed Battle of Glendale 1862 |
Cadets who did not participate in the Civil War
Austin N. Colcord | 30 | Resigned 1855 | |
Hugh Duncan | 9 | Second Lieutenant | Died on duty Ft. Broan, Texas 1853 |
Joseph Edward Maxwell | 42 | Second Lieutenant | Killed in skirmish with Apache in New Mexico, 1854 |
John A. Mebane | 16 | First Lieutenant | Died on duty Baton Rouge, La., 1854 |
Zeitus Searle | 41 | Resigned 1850 |
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