William P. Trowbridge: Eight years in the Army, as an astronomer and surveyor; in civilian life, a professor of mathematics and engineering.

Andrew J. Donelson, Jr.: Almost all his career was spent at West Point in various capacities; died eleven years after graduating.

James C. Duane: Engineer best known as the Union commander who directed the building of the bridge over the Chickahominy in the Virginia Campaign of the War between the States; ended his forty-year Army career as Chief of Engineers.

Walter H. Stevens: Engineer, worked on the fortifications of New Orleans and Galveston for a decade; in the War between the States, worked on the fortifications of Richmond for the Confederacy.

Robert S. Williamson: Topographical engineer; fought for the Union in the War between the States, published an important work on the barometric determination of the height of mountains.

Rufus A. Roys: Engineer; on his first assignment away from the Academy, he was killed by a fall with his horse.

Nathaniel Michler: Thirty-three years in the Army, as a Topographical Engineer and Engineer: boundaries, an early survey for a Panama Canal, fought for the Union in the War between the States, siting large government buildings in the District of Columbia, and river and harbor improvements.

James M. Haynes: Died in Mexico City two years after graduating, while traveling from Texas to Oregon.

Joseph C. Clark: Artilleryman, served on the western frontier and fought for the Union in the War between the States; retired much disabled from battle wounds.

William E. Jones: Cavalry­man, served on the western frontier; in the War between the States, he fought for the Confederacy and was killed in battle.

John C. Tidball: Forty years in the Artillery, serving in the Third Seminole War and on Whipple's expedition to California, fighting for the Union in the War between the States; briefly Commandant of Cadets at the Military Academy; various commands on the Pacific Coast and in Alaska. [+ AOG]

William G. Gill: Artilleryman, served in the Third Seminole War and on the western frontier; resigned to civilian life at the outbreak of the War between the States, and died a year later, fairly young.

Benjamin D. Forsythe: Infantry­man; served in various garrisons, but died fairly young.

Thomas S. Rhett: Artilleryman, served in the Third Seminole War, resigned within seven years, was a bank clerk, fought for the Confederacy in the War between the States; as to the remaining nearly thirty years of his life the Register is silent.

James Holmes: Artilleryman, served in garrisons on the western frontier and in New England; died within six years after graduating.

John Buford: Cavalry­man, fought Indians in the Midwest, then Confederates in the War between the States, as Chief of Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac; one of the best Union cavalry officers — among other things, a significant contributor to the Northern victory at Gettysburg — he died of illness in mid-war.

Truman K. Walbridge: Artilleryman, served in the Third Seminole War; and in Indian-related duties about half his eight years in the Army, cut short by an early death.

Edward B. Bryan: Resigned immediately; South Carolina planter and politician.

Richard I. Dodge: Thirty-some years on the western frontier, and fought for the Union in the War between the States.

Grier Tallmadge: Served mostly in western garrisons; died as a high-level Union quartermaster during the War between the States.

William A. Slaughter: Most of his career was on the Pacific coast; killed by Indians in Washington State seven years after graduating.

Robert M. Russell: Resigned after two years; farmed a bit, and died many years later as a California miner.

Charles H. Tyler: Served in the Dragoons on the western frontier for over twelve years; fought for the Confederacy in the War between the States.

John C. Booth: Nearly eight years in the Army, at frontier posts north, south and west, and in the Second Seminole War; low-level civilian career, and served the Confederacy in the War between the States.

Thomas K. Jackson: Frontier duty in the West, and fought against Indians; in the War between the States, fought for the Confederacy; after the war, an Alabama farmer and merchant. [+ AOG]

George H. Paige: Served mostly in the West (but also briefly in Panama); died while on the Utah Expedition, ten years after graduating.

Nathaniel H. McLean: Infantry­man, served on the western frontier, then in a staff capacity in the Union Army in the War between the States, during which he resigned.

A. Galbraith Miller: Resigned after nine years in the Army, all in Texas; joined the Union Army briefly during the War between the States, died shortly after resigning again.

Charles H. Ogle: Cavalry­man, fought Indians in the West; dismissed for financial irregularities in the early days of the War between the States, he was allowed to rejoin the Union Army as a volunteer, and fought in the Maryland Campaign but was discharged while on sick leave, and died a few months later.

William N. R. Beall: Fought Indians on the western frontier; in the War between the States, a Confederate general.

Ferdinand Paine: Served mostly in western garrisons; died six years after graduating.

Thomas D. Johns: Resigned after three years and was a merchant and mining engineer, except for a bit more than a year when he fought for the Union in the War between the States.

William T. Mechling: Fought against Indians in Texas; dismissed for failure to render proper financial accounts and fought for the Confederacy; after the war, a civil engineer in Central America and Texas.

George C. Barber: Served in the Third Seminole War and on the western frontier, but died five years after graduating.

Daniel Huston: Infantry­man, served thirty years on the western frontier, and fought for the Union in the War between the States.

N. George Evans: Cavalry­man, fought Indians on the western frontier, and for the Confederacy in the War between the States.

George H. Steuart: Cavalry­man, served on the western frontier, then in the War between the States as a prominent Confederate cavalry commander.

George W. Howland: Served on the western frontier and fought Indians, then fought for the Union in the War between the States; seventeen years of civilian life after the war, about which the Register has no information.