Richard Delafield: Lifetime Army engineer in river and harbor improvements; twice Superintendent of the Military Academy

Andrew Talcott: Engineer and surveyor for 18 years with the Army, and afterward as a civilian; a significant contributor to the methods and equipment of astronomy and geodesy.

S. Stanhope Smith: Died ten years after graduating, his entire career having been spent in the Army as a mathematics and natural philosophy professor at the Military Academy.

Horace Webster: Seven years as a prefer at the Military Academy; resigned seven years after graduating, taught mathematics and natural philosophy at Geneva College, then founded the City College of New York, where he taught philosophy.

Samuel Ringgold: Artilleryman; served in the Seminole War and was killed fighting in the Mexican War.

Harvey Brown: Lifetime artillery officer, served in the Black Hawk Expedition, fought in the Second and Third Seminole Wars and the Mexican War; fought for the Union in the War between the States.

Joseph N. Chambers: A Marylander, he was posted to Louisiana on graduation; five years later, he resigned and lived the remaining fifty years of his life as a Louisiana planter.

Samuel Mackenzie: Artilleryman, served at frontier posts north, west, and south, and in the Second Seminole War; fought in the Mexican War, and died in Mexico City.

Giles Porter: Artilleryman, served on the Canadian border and fought in the Second Seminole War.

George W. Corprew: Fifteen years in the Artillery, in various garrisons; resigned to plant cotton in Mississippi, and died not long after.

John J. Jackson: Resigned after four years; made his profession in the law, with state politics and business, in what became West Virginia.

Edward Harding: Thirty-six years in Artillery and Ordnance; commanded several arsenals.

Benjamin C. Vining: Died four years after graduating.

Henry H. Loring: Resigned after thirteen years of miscellaneous frontier duty. Died not long after.

Joseph F. Daingerfield: Resigned after two years; practiced law in Virginia where he was a member of the House of Delegates.

Joseph Strong: Resigned after nearly eight years in the Artillery; as a civilian, taught a variety of subjects in several states.

John B. F. Russell: Nearly nineteen years in the Army, mostly on Commissary, Recruiting, and Quartermaster duty; as a civilian, a land and insurance agent.

George Webb: Fourteen years in the Artillery in New York City and Baltimore, where he died.

Hartman Bache: Fifty years as a military engineer, building lighthouses and improving harbors and rivers.

William S. Newton: Nineteen years in the Army, in various garrisons and on Ordnance duty.

Leonard O. Brooke: Died within three years of graduating.

Henry Giles: Resigned after a year and a half; teacher, surveyor, farmer, and local and state politician in Kentucky.

John T. Pratt: Quit immediately; farmer and state politician in Kentucky.