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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