Ernest H. Ruffner: Forty years as an engineer, in military roads, waterway and harbor improvement, and lighthouses.

John C. Mallery: Engineer, taught five years at the Military Academy; engaged in topographical and lighthouse work.

Clinton B. Sears: Forty years as an Army engineer, much of it in waterway improvement.

Thomas Turtle: Twenty-five years as an engineer, almost always on waterway improvement projects.

Joseph E. Griffith: Fought for the Union in the War between the States before becoming a Cadet; on graduating, was an engineer in river improvements, but resigned after four years; died fairly young. [+ AOG]

William E. Rogers: Resigned two years after graduating; New York railroad commissioner and lawyer.

Lewis M. Haupt: Resigned two years after graduating; professor of civil engineering; and practicing engineer, primarily of canals.

John E. Greer: Forty years as an ordnance officer; commanded several arsenals.

Edward Maguire: Twenty-five years as an Army engineer, author of a work on coast fortifications. [+ AOG]

John Pitman: Ordnance officer, commanding various arsenals by the end of his career. Before becoming a Cadet, served as a volunteer in the Union Army in the War between the States.

Frederick A. Mahan: Engineer, mostly in waterway improvement, especially of the Ohio River; military attaché in Denmark and France.

Charles F. Powell: Forty years as an Army engineer, mostly in waterway improvement; before becoming a Cadet, fought for the Union in the War between the States as an enlisted man for two years.

Frederick A. Hinman: Engineer, mostly of harbor and river improvements; after retiring to civilian life, director of a cement company.

William F. Reynolds: Artilleryman, taught three years at the Military Academy; died ten years after graduating.

Charles Shaler: Ordnance officer; taught five years at the Military Academy, and served as a Senate committee staffer for three years; commanded various arsenals.

Charles S. Heintzelman: Artilleryman, but soon specialized in the construction of post buildings; died fairly young.

John M. K. Davis: Forty years in the Artillery, often as an instructor or an inspector; at the end of his career, commanding various districts and departments.

Crosby P. Miller: Artilleryman, but soon specialized in the construction of post buildings, for mcmost his thirty-nine years in the Army.

Charles G. Eckhart: Resigned three years after graduating; practiced law in Illinois, and twice a delegate to the Republican National Convention.

Luigi Lomia: Artilleryman, entered the Military Academy with a Master's Degree; posted to or commanded mostly coastal forts, and fought in Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War.

James E. Bell: Artilleryman, died six years after graduating; served almost his whole brief career in New York State.

Robert M. Rogers: Artilleryman; almost all his thirty-three years in the Army were spent in East Coast garrisons. A year in the service of the Khedive of Egypt, and a brief tour of duty in Cuba just after the Spanish-American War.

Thomas H. Barber: An artilleryman for eighteen years, during which he was posted to various East Coast garrisons; as a civilian, devoted himself to charitable causes. Represented the Army at the Hawaiian annexation ceremonies.

John M. Johnson: Resigned after three years in the Cavalry scouting in Indian country; was a government official in Missouri and a lawyer in Colorado.

John McClellan: Thirty-nine years in the Artillery, almost entirely at coastal forts; served as ordnance officer in the Spanish-American War, with service in Cuba just after the war.

Thomas T. Thornburgh: Before his appointment as a Cadet, he had fought for the Union in the War between the States as a volunteer enlisted man; after graduating, posted mostly in the West, and killed by Indians when still young.

Eugene P. Murphy: Resigned within five years of graduating; went into brokerage, real estate, and insurance. [+ AOG]

Samuel R. Jones: Over forty years in the Army, the first twenty-five in the Artillery, sometimes fighting Indians in the Pacific Northwest; the remainder in the Quartermaster's Department. Fought in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War and during the insurgency.

Ephraim T. C. Richmond: Nearly forty years in the Artillery, almost all of them in Eastern coastal forts; but served in the Philippines during the insurgency.

Henry B. Osgood: Artilleryman, found his niche as a commissary officer for they twenty years. Before becoming a Cadet, he fought for the Union in the War between the States. [+ AOG]

James Bassel: Resigned three years after graduating; in civilian life, worked mostly in railroads.

Sedgwick Pratt: Nearly forty years in the Artillery. Taught nine years at the Military Academy; by the end of his career, he was most often acting as an inspector.

Allyn Capron: Artilleryman, served at many posts in all parts of the country; fought in the Sioux Campaign of 1890 and in the Spanish-American War in Cuba.

Henry D. Wallen, Jr.: Left the army three years after graduating, went into railroads and the iron business.

Arthur Cranston: Artilleryman, killed in the Modoc Campaign six years after graduating.

Alexander D. Schenck: Nearly forty years in the Artillery, both coastal and field; served in Cuba just after the Spanish-American War.

Oliver E. Wood: Almost forty years in the Artillery, almost all of them at coastal forts, except for two years in Cuba in the Spanish-American War and afterward, and four years as military attaché in Japan.

Edward M. Merriman: Left the army three years after graduating; a railroad engineer and state public official.

Edwin S. Curtis: Before becoming a Cadet, served as a private in the Union forces in the War between the States. Graduated as an artilleryman; taught military science; served in Cuba.

George A. Garretson: Resigned after two years; in civilian life, a banker. Participated in the Puerto Rican actions of the Spanish-American War.

Jacob Almy: Cavalry­man, fought Indians in the West, and was killed by an Indian six years after graduating.

William J. Sartle: Infantry­man; stationed at various forts in the South and West, died six years after graduating.

Leander T. Howes: Resigned within two years of graduating; banker and gentleman farmer.

Henry C. Danes: Thirty-four years in the Artillery, stationed mostly at coastal forts; served in China in the Boxer Rebellion and in the Philippines during the insurgency.

Walter Howe: Artilleryman, posted to an unusually large number of garrisons thruout the United States; fought Indians on the western frontier and insurgents in the Philippines; by the end of his 43‑year career was a departmental commander.

Barnet Wager: Sixteen years in the Artillery, much of it at coastal forts.

Medorem Crawford: Forty years in the Artillery, mostly coastal; served on expedition into Mexico in 1878 and in Cuba just after the Spanish-American War.

Edward Davis: Thirty-eight years in the Artillery; served in the Philippines during the insurgency.

A. Tracy Lee: Died within three years of graduating.

Henry N. Moss: Cavalry­man, served nine years on frontier duty in the Pacific Northwest, and resigned; search engine and superintendent of streets in Washington, DC.

Stanislaus Remak: Resigned four years after graduating, got a law degree, and practiced law.

Horatio M. Jones: Resigned six years after graduating; in civilian life, he was a lumber dealer.

Edward S. Godfrey: Cavalry­man, fought Indians on the western frontier (Medal of Honor), served in Cuba just after the Spanish-American War, and served in the Philippines during the insurgency.

William J. Roe: Resigned two years after graduating, without ever having performed any duties; a prolific writer and illustrator.

Christopher C. Wolcott: Fourteen years in the Artillery, then twenty-one years — the rest of his life — in the Navy as an engineer.

John A. Campbell: Twelve years in the Artillery, including a tour of duty in Alaska.

Gilbert P. Cotton: Thirty years in the Artillery, almost all of it in coastal forts mostly in the East.

Eliphalet N. Chester: Resigned three years after graduating; in civilian life, a patchwork of odd jobs.

George W. Cradlebaugh: Left the army within four years of graduating; a government surveyor, he died four years after that. Before becoming a Cadet, served in the Union Army in the War between the States.

William B. McCallum: Artilleryman; served almost all of his twenty-two years' Army career in Eastern coastal forts.

Orsemus B. Boyd: Cavalry­man; died after an eighteen-year career spent entirely in western garrisons. [+ AOG]

Thomas R. Adams: Thirty-seven years in the Artillery, with brief tours of duty in Puerto Rico just after the Spanish-American War, and in the Philippines during the insurgency.

John H. Gifford: Thirty years in the Artillery, stationed at coastal and inland forts about equally. [+ AOG]