Patrick J. O'Rorke: Engineer in the Union Army, several times breveted; killed at Gettysburg two years after graduating.

Francis U. Farquhar: Engineer, fought for the Union in the War between the States; after the war, worked on improvements to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

Arthur H. Dutton: Fought for the Union in the War between the States, and died of battle wounds three years after graduating.

Clarence Derrick: Fought for the Confederacy in the War between the States; after the war, a lawyer, banker, and planter.

Daniel W. Flagler: Thirty-eight years in the Army as an ordnance officer; fought for the Union in the War between the States, and rose to Chief of Ordnance.

Thomas C. Bradford: Ordnance officer, fought for the Union in the War between the States and taught at the Military Academy; died fairly young.

Richard M. Hill: Ordnance officer, fought for the Union in the War between the States; died fairly young.

William H. Harris: Ordnance officer, fought for the Union in the War between the States; resigned five years after the war and was a manufacturing and industrial executive.

Alfred Mordecai: An ordnance expert like his father; involved in the standardization of small arms and machine guns and the interchangeability of their parts.

David H. Buel: Ordnance officer, fought for the Union in the War between the States; murdered by a deserter nine years after graduating.

Stephen C. Lyford: Ordnance officer, fought for the Union in the War between the States; taught at the Military Academy, served on a mission to the Emperor of Japan and represented the War Department at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876.

Alonzo H. Cushing: Artilleryman, fought for the Union in the War between the States; awarded the Medal of Honor for his outstanding bravery and effectiveness at the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he was killed.

Charles C. Parsons: Artilleryman, fought for the Union in the War between the States and taught at the Academy; in civilian life, an Episcopalian minister.

John R. Edie: Fought for the Union in the War between the States, and served mostly in the Ordnance until his death thirteen years after graduating.

Lawrence S. Babbitt: Fought for the Union in the War between the States, and served almost his whole forty-year career in the Ordnance.

Justin E. Dimick: Fought for the Union in the War between the States; killed at Chancellorsville within two years after graduating.

Frank A. Reynolds: Briefly among the defenders of Washington at the beginning of the War between the States, he resigned and fought for the Confederacy; after the war, he served in the Egyptian army.

George A. Custer: Among the youngest Union generals in the War between the States, he met his end fighting Indians at the Little Big Horn — "Custer's Last Stand".

George Burroughs: Engineer, fought for the Union in the War between the States; died seven years after graduating.

Charles R. Suter: Engineer, whose forty-four years in the Army were spent mostly in river and harbor improvements; fought for the Union in the War between the States.

Henry C. Wharton: Engineer, served in the Union Army in the War between the States; died eight years after graduating.

Clemens C. Chaffee: Ordnance officer, fought for the Union in the War between the States; died shortly after the war, five years after graduating.

Morris Schaff: Nine years in the Ordnance, about half of them in Union service during the War between the States; in civilian life, a glass manufacturer; author of several books, especially Spirit of Old West Point.

Albert M. Murray: Fought for the Union in the War between the States, and died in a Confederate prison two years after graduating.

John R. Meigs: Killed in battle a year after graduating, fighting for the Union in the War between the States.

Peter S. Michie: Engineer; fought in for the Union in the War between the States; taught at the Military Academy for over thirty years where he became one of its most formative influences.

William R. King: Ordnance officer and engineer, invented and designed a counterpoise gun-carriage, and worked on river and harbor improvements thruout the country. [+ AOG]

William H. H. Benyaurd: Thirty-seven years as an Army Engineer; after fighting for the Union in the War between the States, he specialized mostly in bridges, rivers and harbors.

Charles W. Howell: Engineer, fought for the Union in the War between the States mostly building and dismantling bridges in Virginia; after the war, worked on river and harbor improvements in and near the Gulf of Mexico.

Asa H. Holgate: Engineer, served with the Union Army during the War between the States; ended his career ten years after the war with a pair of arrests and was allowed to resign; died three years later.

John R. McGinness: Forty years as an Ordnance officer, fighting for the Union in the War between the States and serving in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War.

George W. McKee: Thirty-seven years as an Ordnance officer; fought for the Union in the War between the States, commanded various arsenals; taught one year at the Military Academy.

Robert Catlin: Fought for the Union in War between the States; the loss of a leg in battle pretty much put an end to his military career.

Charles H. Lester: Cavalryman, fought for the Union in the War between the States, then served eighteen years on the western frontier, mostly in Texas.

Oswald H. Ernst: Engineer, a specialist in river improvements and canals; fought for the Union in the War between the States; Superintendent of the Military Academy 1893‑1898.

Charles B. Phillips: Fought for the Union in the War between the States; the fifteen remaining years of his life and Army career were as an engineer, mostly in river and harbor improvement.

William A. Jones: Engineer; worked on a Union prison camp in the War between the States, then forts, roads, bridges, river improvements, reservoirs, and especially lighthouses.

John T. Cantwell: Fought for the Union in the War between the States, but was killed in a shooting accident in New York State than a year after graduating.

Andrew N. Damrell: Served the Union during the War between the States; forty years as an Army engineer, most of it in harbor and river improvement in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi; taught one year at the Military Academy.

C. Douglas Waterman: Served the Union during the War between the States, but was captured by the Confederacy on his way to his first assignment; then paroled, but died three months after graduating.

Vanderbilt Allen: Fought for the Union in the War between the States, resigning at the end of it; served in the Egyptian army for two years, then manufactured water purifiers.

Charles J. Allen: Almost forty years as an Army engineer; fought for the Union in the War between the States, and spent the rest of his career in river and harbor improvements, much of it on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

Cullen Bryant: Ordnance officer, commanded various arsenals.

Martin L. Poland: Ordnance officer; a fourteen-year career which ended in his death five days after achieving his first command of a depot.

Alexander S. Clarke: Eight years in the Army, during which he fought for the Union in the War between the States and taught four years at the Military Academy; in civilian life, a physician.

E. van Arsdale Andruss: Forty years in the Artillery; fought for the Union in the War between the States.

William Ennis: Forty years in the Artillery; fought for the Union in the War between the States; served in Cuba in the Spanish-American War.

John Elliott: Fought for the Union in the War between the States, losing his left foot; died six years after graduating.

Melville R. Loucks: Served in the Union Army during the War between the States and then on the Pacific coast including Alaska; died within eight years of graduating.

Isaac W. Maclay: Ordnance officer, served the Union in the War between the States, leaving the Army after nine years; city surveyor of New York City. He was one of those who carried President Lincoln from Ford's Theater to the room in which he died. [+ AOG]

Rezin G. Howell: Artilleryman, fought for the Union in the War between the States; afterward, mostly Southern garrisons for the rest of his 23‑year career.

William R. Livermore: Engineer, mostly of river and harbor improvements; author of historical works.

Thomas H. Handbury: Engineer, whose active forty-year career was exercised mostly in river and harbor improvements, especially of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and the Pacific Northwest.

John K. Hezlep: Engineer, died two years after graduating.

A. Nisbet Lee: Engineer, mostly of river improvements.

Henry B. Ledyard: Resigned after five years; was one of the country's most powerful railroad executives.

Ormsby M. Mitchel: Miscellaneous Army duties followed by a brief civilian career as a lawyer, cut short by an early death.

Thomas L. Brent: On frontier duty in the West almost all ten years of his Army career; retired for disability contracted in the line of duty, and died four years later.

Satterlee C. Plummer: Infantryman with a checkered career ending in dismissal.

Archibald H. Goodloe: Infantryman; his eighteen years in the Army spent almost entirely on the western frontier, including fighting Indians.

Cass Durham: Infantryman, served in various garrisons, mostly in the South.

George M. Wheeler: For over a decade, he was in charge of the Geographical Survey of the United States West of the 100th Meridian.

William P. Dixon: Died three months after graduating, in a shipwreck attempting to rescue a fellow passenger.

Charles King: Thirty-some years in the Army, mostly in the Cavalry; fought Indians on the western frontier, and fought in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War; author of many books on army life.

James E. Eastman: Thirty-three years in the Artillery, mostly in the East; died on sick leave after being posted to Cuba in the Spanish-American War.

Isaac T. Webster: Twenty years in the Artillery, six of which as a professor of military science in Midwestern colleges.

William H. Upham: Even before he was a Cadet, he had been left for dead on the battlefield at Bull Run; three years after graduating from West Point, resigned, eventually to become governor of Wisconsin.

Solon Orr: Died in Florida a year after graduating.

Elbridge B. Hills: Forty years in the Artillery; over half of his career was as an adjutant or in high administrative posts.

Leonard J. Hun: Honorably discharged from the Army a year after graduating; practiced law.

Samuel E. Tillman: Retired after forty-two years in the Army, over thirty of them as a professor of chemistry at the Military Academy, he returned to duty as its Superintendent during World War I.

Arthur S. Hardy: Resigned after a year; taught mathematics and engineering, author of textbooks in those subjects, also of romantic novels; editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, diplomat.

John G. Bourke: As an enlisted man in the Union Army in the War between the States before attending West Point, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; after graduating, fought Indians on the western frontier and was an ethnologist of note.

Francis V. Greene: Engineer in the Army for sixteen years, often on special assignments; in civilian life, president and director of various electrical power and construction firms; author of books on military subjects; in the Army again for the few months of the Spanish-American War, as a top-level administrator.

Winfield S. Chaplin: Resigned from the Army after not quite two years; taught civil engineering at universities in Japan and the United States; Chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis.

Edward S. Holden: Resigned from the Army after not quite three years, to become one of the country's leading astronomers, first at the U. S. Naval Academy then as director of the Washburn Observatory and the Lick Observatory; President of the University of California; editor of the 4th volume of Cullum's Register; Librarian at the Military Academy.

Rollin B. Ives: Commissioned in the Artillery, in which he served for five years, he then started to make a career as a professor, teaching four years at the Academy; but died young, nine years after graduating.

Edgar S. Dudley: Artilleryman and military law specialist, served as judge advocate of various departments and as legal adviser to the military governor of Cuba in the Spanish-American War; taught at the University of Nebraska and eight years at the Academy.

Charles W. Larned: Served four years in the Cavalry, including combat against Indians on the Yellowstone Expedition; then taught drawing at the Academy for thirty-five years to his death. [+ AOG]

John A. McKinney: Cavalryman, killed fighting Indians five years after graduating.

Charles H. Ribbel: Resigned after three years, and was a lawyer for forty-some years, serving briefly as Judge Advocate in the U. S. Volunteers during the Spanish-American War.

Frederick D. Grant: Son of the President; ten years in the Army, then Ambassador to Vienna, police commissioner of New York City, then fourteen more years in the Army, serving in the Spanish-American War, mostly in the Philippines.

Henry M. Harrington: Cavalryman, killed at Little Big Horn four years after graduating.

Austin Henely: Served in Kansas, Colorado, Indian territory, and Arizona, where he drowned in a flood six years after graduating.

Charles A. L. Totten: Artilleryman, but mostly a professor of military science and a prolific writer on mystical interpretations of the Bible. [+ AOG]

Samuel N. Holmes: Infantryman, dismissed six years after graduating for making fraudulent claims against the government; died the following year.

William T. Howard: Artilleryman, served mostly on the western frontier; died fairly young.

Samuel R. Douglas: Seven years in the Army, on the western frontier; then a civilian farmer, politician and educator, mostly in his home State of Montana.

Edward E. Gayle: Artilleryman; taught at the Military Academy, fought in the Spanish-American War, and served in the Philippines.

William R. Hamilton: Artilleryman; taught military subjects in the National Guard and in two universities, and published two books on military subjects.

Henry D. Borup: Ordnance officer, fought in the Spanish-American War; several interesting ceremonial duties in the course of his career.

Sevier M. Rains: Killed fighting Indians in Idaho a year after graduating.

Thomas H. Barry: Served on the western frontier, where he fought Indians; fought in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War; President of the Army War College, Superintendent of the Military Academy; commanded armies or army departments in Cuba, China, and Philippines; served in France in World War I.

Ben I. Butler: Resigned within a year, and died three years later.

Albert L. Mills: Fought Indians on the western frontier, and in Cuba in the Spanish-American War (Medal of Honor); Superintendent of the Military Academy.

Augustine F. Hewitt: Died in Texas three years after graduating.

George W. Goethals: Remembered as the Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal.

Sidney E. Stuart: Ordnance officer; taught four years at the Military Academy; killed in an industrial accident by the explosion of a shell.

Wilbur Loveridge: Artilleryman; twelve years of garrisons and training, then found dead in his quarters.

Edgar Hubert: Infantryman, served mostly on the western frontier, but died on duty in Puerto Rico, of typhoid fever.

John Biddle: Engineer, fought in the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, and headed the logistics of American troop movement from Britain to France in World War I; Superintendent of the Military Academy 1916‑1917.

John M. Stotsenburg: Served on the western frontier for fifteen years, and fought Indians; killed in action in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War.

Andrew S. Rowan: Military intelligence specialist, whose great moment came in the Spanish-American War: he was the man who carried the message to Garcia.

Simeon M. Dinkins: Resigned within a year and a half; practiced law and founded a school.

John T. Thompson: Served in Cuba in the Spanish-American War Army; his career was mostly in the Ordnance, and he is remembered today as the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun (the "tommy gun").

Charles H. Osgood: Posted to garrisons in New York State; died within three years of graduating.

Ernest S. Robins: Cavalryman, served on the western frontier; illness limited his career, and he died ten years after graduating.

Charles F. Parker: Artilleryman, who in his 20‑year career came to specialize in seacoast artillery and torpedoes; in the Spanish-American War, participated in a long and important two-man reconnaissance of Cuba behind the lines.

William A. Sater: Infantryman, killed in the Spanish-American War four years after graduating.

John Asa Gurney: Infantryman, killed in the Spanish-American War three years after graduating.

Jens Bugge: Taught four years at the Military Academy, served in the Philippines and in Cuba just after the Spanish-American War, as well as in Europe in World War I; Commandant of Cadets at the Military Academy.

Harry Howard Stout: Served in Cuba in the Spanish-American War and taught briefly at the Military Academy, but resigned six years after graduation; a consulting engineer and corporate executive with several materials firms.

Conway H. Arnold, Jr.: Artilleryman, served in various garrisons and in Cuba; retired for illness and died young shortly afterward.

Louis H. Lewis: Infantryman, killed in the Spanish-American War three years after graduating.

Joseph Numa Augustin: Infantryman, killed in the Spanish-American War three years after graduating.

John Morrison, Jr.: Cavalryman, killed in action in the Philippines four years after graduating.

Robert C. Richardson, Jr.: Cavalryman, forty years in the Army, during which he fought Moros in the Philippines, served as an aide and administrator in France in World War I, was Commandant of Cadets at the Military Academy for four years, and commanding general of various units in the Pacific theater in World War II.

Wilber A. Blain: Infantryman, served several tours of duty in the Philippines and served in France in World War I.

Bernard P. Oswalt: Infantryman, died in the Philippines four years after graduating.

Harold F. Nichols: Forty years in the Coast Artillery; served in France in World War I and in Hawaii in World War II.

Anthony C. McAuliffe: In 1920, learning Artillery. [He would become the commanding general of the American forces at the Battle of the Bulge.]

John Ignatius Brosnan: Cavalry officer, died of a riding accident a few months after graduation.

Joseph H. Gilbreth: Tank commander, served in the European Theater in World War II.