George L. Welcker: Twelve years in the Army as an engineer building the Cumberland Road and several forts.

James L. Mason: Engineer of coastal fortifications; fought in Mexican War.

Danville Leadbetter: Engineer who worked most of his career in Mobile Bay; served in much the same capacity as a Confederate general in the War between the States.

Joseph R. Anderson: Resigned after fifteen months; in civilian life, an engineer and the owner and chief executive of the Tredegar Iron Foundry in Richmond; in the War between the States, fought for his State against the North.

Montgomery C. Meigs: U. S. Quartermaster-General for twenty years, including during the entire War between the States; involved in the establishment of Arlington National Cemetery, the building of the Capitol dome and the Smithsonian Institute, and many other important logistical enterprises.

Daniel P. Woodbury: Construction engineer, built forts and lighthouses and the author of two technical works on the subject; during the War between the States, fought for the Union.

Fisher A. Lewis: Fought in the Second Seminole War, but resigned after a year and a half; a long life as a (West) Virginia farmer.

Samuel J. Bransford: Taught mathematics at the Military Academy, where he was killed in a riding accident — only four years after graduating.

Augustus P. Allen: Artilleryman and Topographical Engineer; fought in the Second Seminole War; died in Louisiana five years after graduating.

William H. Warner: Ten years on topographical service; killed by Indians in the line of duty, surveying mountain passes for the transcontinental railroad.

Barnabas Conkling: Served on the frontier; assigned to Indian removal; died within three years of graduating.

William B. Wallace: Resigned immediately; worked as a railroad engineer and taught school, but died five years after graduating.

Marlborough Churchill: Resigned almost immediately; a school principal for most of his life.

David P. De Witt: Resigned almost immediately, and worked as a civil engineer; but in the War between the States, fought for the Union with several different volunteer and reserve units despite health problems; after the war, returned to civilian life as a supply manager for a transportation company.

James Lowry Donaldson: Artilleryman, posted to various hot spots during the first few years of his career, and fought in the Mexican War; his greatest achievements were in Union service during the War between the States, as Quartermaster in the Tennessee Campaign.

John P. J. O'Brien: Fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War; author of a treatise on military law and the practice of courts-martial.

Roland A. Luther: Served in the Second Seminole War and on the western frontier; fought in the Mexican War and in the Third Seminole War; died fairly young after a seventeen-year career in the Army.

Thomas W. Sherman: Artilleryman, served in the Second Seminole War and fought in the Mexican War; served on the western frontier, and fought for the Union in the War between the States, losing his right leg.

John F. Roland: Fought in the Second Seminole War, the Mexican War, and the Third Seminole War.

Charles B. Sing: Fought in the Second Seminole War, but resigned after a year; a Methodist minister.

Alexander P. Crittenden: Resigned immediately; railroad engineer, lawyer and politician.

Henry H. Lockwood: Fought in the Second Seminole War, but resigned after a year; mathematics, science, and military science professor and one of the founders of the Naval Academy; fought for the Union in the War between the States.

Christopher A. Greene: Resigned within a year; a civilian educator.

John W. Phelps: Artilleryman, fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War, and for the Union in the War between the States in which he organized the first Negro troops — out of conviction rather than Lincoln's later expediency — and resigned over the matter; a man of many convictions, he was a candidate for the presidency of the United States and an author.

Peter V. Hagner: Ordnance man, fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War; during his forty-year Army career he commanded several arsenals and served as a technical expert on a number of ordnance boards.

Muscoe L. Shackleford: Fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War; died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Molino del Rey, eleven years after graduating.

Christopher Q. Tompkins: Fought in the Second Seminole War; resigned after serving garrison duty during the Mexican War; in civilian life, iron manufacturer.

Martin J. Burke: Fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War; killed at the Battle of Churubusco, eleven years after graduating.

John W. Judson: Declined his appointment; as a civilian construction engineer of harbor improvements, mostly in upstate New York.

I. Carle Woodruff: Forty-plus years in the Union Army as an engineer: surveying, harbor improvements, lighthouse construction.

William B. Arvin: Resigned almost immediately; Ohio court official.

John S. Hatheway: Artilleryman, fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War; served in Oregon.

Robert Allen: Fought in the Mexican War; his greatest services to the country were as a quartermaster in charge of the logistics for many of the large Union army corps during the War between the States.

William Frazer: Fought in the Second Seminole War; two more tours of duty in Florida, and died eight years after graduating.

George C. Thomas: Fought in the Second Seminole War and served on an expedition against the Potawatomi Indians; resigning after five years, he was a lawyer and government employee.

Arthur B. Lansing: Resigned immediately, but after three years as a civilian engineer, rejoined the Army; fought in the Mexican War, then was posted to various western garrisons before resigning again after a twelve-year military career; no trace of his civilian life.

Charles B. Daniels: Artilleryman, fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War; died of battle wounds at Molino del Rey, eleven years after graduating.

William Mock: Fought in the Second Seminole War, almost his whole five-year Army career being spent in Florida; after resigning, farmed a bit in Missouri, was a miner in the California gold rush, then settled down to forty years as a California farmer. [+ AOG]

Robert F. Baker: Infantry­man, fought in the Second Seminole War, and was posted to southern and western frontier garrisons; seven years after graduating, he was dismissed for drunkenness, and he died the following year.

Charles Hoskins: Served on Indian and western garrison duty, and fought in the Mexican War; killed at the Battle of Monterey, ten years after graduating.

Samuel Whitehorn: Infantry­man; posted to garrisons in the Old Northwest, where he died four years after graduating.

Collinson R. Gates: Infantry­man, fought in the Second Seminole War in each of two tours of duty, and in the Mexican War; succumbed to cholera on the western frontier, while still young.

Marcus C. M. Hammond: Resigned after six years in Florida and on the western frontier; though a Southern planter, he stayed out of the War between the States.

Richard G. Stockton: Resigned within the year; a Missouri physician.

Thomas P. Chiffelle: Resigned right away; a civil engineer who held a variety of positions in his career.

Lloyd Tilghman: Railroad engineer and Confederate general killed in the Vicksburg campaign. Photograph.

Thomas McCrate: Served in the Dragoons in Kansas and Iowa; died young.

Henry C. Moorhead: Resigned right away; a Pennsylvania lawyer.

Charles H. E. Spoor: Died a year and a half after graduating.