Edward H. Courtenay: Made his career as a mathematics professor: at the Point, but mostly at the University of Virginia.

Clark Burdine: Resigned rather soon to become a civilian attorney, and died young.

Jonathan Prescott: Taught chemistry and geology at the Academy, and later worked as an engineer; died young.

William W. Wells: Served ten years in the Artillery, with nothing notable recorded in the Register; resigned and died about a year later.

Charles Dimmock: Fifteen years in the U. S. Army, mostly in Artillery and as quartermaster; thirty years as a civilian builder of railroads; Confederate general in the War between the States, defending his home State of Virginia as the Chief of the Ordnance Department.

John C. Holland: Died four years after graduating.

Edward C. Ross: in his eighteen years in the Army, he fought in the Second Seminole War; but he is known mostly for being a very good mathematics professor, at the Academy and at other schools later, as a civilian.

Washington Wheelwright: Served nearly twelve years in the Artillery, including in the Black Hawk War; in civilian life, a New York merchant and notary public.

David Wallace: Resigned within a year, and went on to a political career, becoming governor of Indiana and a U. S. representative.

Robert F. W. Allston: Resigned within a year, and went on to a political career, becoming governor of South Carolina.

John F. Scott: Resigned after four years; was a merchant in New York, but died fairly young.

James Grier: Died on the western frontier seven years after graduating; he taught for a year and a half at the Academy.

John B. Scott: Served in the Artillery nearly forty years; in the Second and Third Seminole Wars, on frontiers north, west and south; and fought in the Mexican War.

Joseph Pentland: Nearly nine years on the western frontier, then dismissed for unspecified cause; died soon after.

Alexander H. Morton: Twelve years in miscellaneous frontier duty; a civilian engineer in Mississippi.

William W. Gaillard: Died at his first post, a year after graduating.

Seth M. Capron: Resigned after 6 years, and manufactured woolens for fifty.

Jefferson Vail: Served fourteen years on the frontier in the Old Northwest and in Louisiana.

James Henshaw: Resigned immediately, and was a farmer in Kentucky.

Otis Wheeler: Twenty-some years in the Infantry, on the western frontier except for three years in Florida; settled as a farmer in Missouri.

Henry Bainbridge: Thirty-five years in the Army, on the western frontier, in the Second Seminole War and later Indian hostilities, and the Mexican War.

Jason Rogers: Fifteen years in the Army, on the western frontier and fought in the Black Hawk War; his civilian life is unknown but he served with the Kentucky Volunteers in the Mexican War. His tombstone makes him twelve years old on entering the Academy.

David M. Porter: Resigned almost immediately; killed by Indians in Mexico, apparently when a civilian (and many years after the Mexican War).

Julius A. d'Lagnel: Made the Ordnance his career until he died, nearly twenty years.