# List of Confederate States Army officers educated at the United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York, that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army. Confederate President Jefferson Davis, himself a former officer and West Point graduate (class of 1828), preferred West Point trained officers for the Confederate States Army (CSA). This article lists those alumni. Also included are a number of officers who were cadets at West Point but for reason known or unknown never graduated, such as Lewis Armistead. There are several (indicated) familial relations between the officers, e.g. between members of the Lee family of Virginia. Other notable Confederate officers include James Longstreet (class of 1842), Stonewall Jackson (class of 1846), and J.E.B. Stuart (class of 1854).

## List

    Note: "Class year" refers to the class year of the individual alumnus, which usually is the same year he graduated. In times of war classes often graduate early.
    Note: A "-" before a class year in brackets means that the individual alumnus was part of this class, but did not graduate.
    Note: Alumni who graduated in the same class are listed according to class rank, highest to lowest, with non-graduates listed alphabetically at the end.
| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Louis Gustave De Russy | 1814 | Major USA, Colonel USV, Major General of Louisiana Militia, Colonel CSA; War of 1812 and Mexican–American War; namesake for 3 forts, oldest West Point graduate in the Confederate States Army |
| William Henry Chase | 1815 | Major USA, Major General of Florida Militia; served as civil and military engineer |
| Samuel Cooper | 1815 | Colonel USA, General CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; Adjutant General of the US Army; Adjutant General and Inspector General of the Confederate States Army |
| Richard Bland Lee II | 1817 | Major USA, Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War; served in the Commissary Dept. (both USA and CSA); cousin of Robert E. Lee |
| Angus William McDonald | 1817 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; commander of the 7th Virginia Cavalry |
| Edward G.W. Butler | 1820 | Colonel USA; Major General of Louisiana Militia, Mexican–American War; Confederate rank and service history unclear |
| John H. Winder | 1820 | Major USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War; commanded the Confederate Bureau of Prison Camps |
| Charles Dimmock | 1821 | Captain USA, Colonel of Virginia Militia, Captain CSA; Superintendent (USA) of the Virginia State Armory; designed the defences at Petersburg |
| Walter Gwynn | 1822 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; civil, fortifications, and railroad engineer |
| Isaac R. Trimble | 1822 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; civil and railroad engineer; wounded and captured at the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Alfred Beckley | 1823 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Virginia Militia, Brigadier General CSA; served in Virginia, resigned in 1862 and afterwards surrendered himself to the Union Army |
| Daniel Smith Donelson | 1825 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Tennessee Militia, Major General CSA; commanded Department of East Tennessee, died of diarrhea on April 17, 1863 |
| Benjamin Huger | 1825 | Major USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; was relieved of field command during the American Civil War and assigned to staff duty |
| Nathaniel H. Street | 1825 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, service history unknown |
| Albert Sidney Johnston | 1826 | Brigadier General USA, General CSA; Texas War of Independence, Mexican–American War, Utah War; killed at the Battle of Shiloh, probably by one of his own men |
| Edward Brickell White | 1826 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; civil engineer; commanded the 3rd (Palmetto) South Carolina Light Artillery Btln |
| Francis L. Dancy | 1826 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel USV, Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars; citrus grower; served as Quartermaster General of Florida |
| John B. Grayson | 1826 | Major USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War; died of tuberculosis and pneumonia on October 21, 1861 |
| John Archer | 1826 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Captain CSA; planter; appointed to the regular confederate army, served as a staff officer in the Eastern Theater |
| James A.J. Bradford | 1827 | Captain USA, Colonel CSA; commanded the 1st North Carolina Artillery, died of disease on September 7, 1863 |
| Leonidas Polk | 1827 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant General CSA; commanded a corps in the Western Theater, killed during the Battle of Marietta; uncle of Lucius E. Polk and relative of Marshall T. Polk |
| Gabriel J. Rains | 1827 | Lieutenant Colonel USA, Brigadier General CSA; 2nd Seminole War, Mexican–American War, Yakima War; commanded the Confederate Torpedo Bureau, brother of George Washington Rains |
| Pierce B. Anderson | - (1827) | Captain USA, Major CSA; Mexican–American War; resigned from West Point in 1825 after receiving a bayonet wound, served as infantry and artillery officer, killed at the Battle of Allegheny Mountain |
| Hugh W. Mercer | 1828 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; commanded the District of Georgia, pressed slaves and free blacks into confederate service |
| Joseph L. Locke | 1828 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; served in the Commissary Dept. |
| Thomas F. Drayton | 1828 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; railroad engineer; fought against his brother Percival Drayton at the Battle of Port Royal |
| Robert E. Lee | 1829 | Colonel USA, General CSA; graduated second in his class, without demerits; commanded the Army of Northern Virginia (1862–1865); General-in-Chief, Confederate States Army (1865); father of G.W.C. Lee, uncle of Fitzhugh Lee |
| Joseph E. Johnston | 1829 | Brigadier General USA, General CSA; Mexican–American War, Seminole Wars; highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to resign and join the Confederate States of America |
| Albert G. Blanchard | 1829 | Major USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War |
| Theophilus H. Holmes | 1829 | Major USA, Lieutenant General CSA; commanded coastal defenses and military districts during most of the American Civil War |
| Benjamin G. Humphreys | - (1829) | Brigadier General CSA; expelled from West Point for his role in the Eggnog Riot; Senator & Governor of Mississippi; commanded an infantry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia |
| William N. Pendleton | 1830 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; educator and Episcopal priest; served as Robert E. Lee's Chief of Artillery during most of the American Civil War |
| John B. Magruder | 1830 | Major USA, Major General CSA, Major General in Imperial Mexican Army; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; noted for his deceptive delaying tactics during the Peninsula Campaign; brother of Allan B. Magruder |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe | 1830 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Episcopal priest, university professor; served as Confederate Assistant Secretary of War |
| Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr. | 1830 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major USV, Brigadier General of Missouri State Guard, Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War; architect; served in the Eastern and Western Theaters |
| Lloyd J. Beall | 1830 | Major USA, Colonel CSA; Black Hawk War, 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; served as the only Colonel-Commandant of the Confederate States Marine Corps |
| William C. Heyward | 1830 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; his plantation was destroyed during the Raid at Combahee Ferry, commanded the 11th South Carolina Infantry |
| Albert Miller Lea | 1831 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Iowas Militia, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Chief Clerk & Acting U.S. Secretary of War; served as an engineer in the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Lucius B. Northrop | 1831 | Captain USA, Colonel CSA, Brigadier General CSA (unconfirmed); 2nd Seminole War; served as the confederate Chief Commissary General of Subsistence |
| James S. Williams | 1831 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Black Hawk War; civil engineer; served as an engineer in the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Montford S. Stokes | - (1831) | Midshipman USN, Major USV, Colonel CSA; left West Point in 1828; Mexican–American War; commanded the 1st North Carolina Infantry, mortally wounded at the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek |
| Benjamin S. Ewell | 1832 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; college professor and civil engineer; commanded the 32nd Virginia Infantry, served as staff officer, brother of Richard Stoddert Ewell |
| Philip St. George Cocke | 1832 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; shot himself on December 26, 1861 |
| Richard G. Fain | 1832 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Tennessee Militia, Colonel CSA; raised the 63rd Tennessee Infantry |
| Tench Tilghman | 1832 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major General of Maryland Militia; Black Hawk War |
| George B. Crittenden | 1832 | Lieutenant Colonel USA, Major General CSA; Black Hawk War, Army of the Republic of Texas, Mexican–American War; reduced in rank from Major General to Colonel in October 1862 |
| Robert H. Archer | 1832 | 2nd Lieutenant USA; Seminole Wars; probably mixed up with Robert Harris Archer |
| Richard C. Gatlin | 1832 | Major USA, Colonel USV, Brigadier General CSA; 2nd Seminole War, Mexican–American War and Utah War; served as Adjutant General and Inspector General of North Carolina |
| Humphrey Marshall | 1832 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel USV, Brigadier General CSA; Black Hawk War, Mexican–American War and Utah War; U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1849–1852), (1855–1859); resigned from the Confederate Army in June 1863, member of Second Confederate Congress |
| William G. Bonner | - (1832) | Major CSA; left West Point in 1831; served as Chief Engineer to his classmate Gen. Humphrey Marshall |
| Francis Henney Smith | 1833 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major General of Virginia Militia, Colonel CSA; was Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute from 1839 to 1889 |
| David Bullock Harris | 1833 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; farmer; served as engineer on Beauregard's staff |
| Roswell W. Lee | 1833 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant in the Army of the Republic of Texas, Colonel CSA; Indian Wars; commanded Indian units |
| J. Lucius Davis | 1833 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel of Virginia Militia, Colonel CSA; commanded the 10th Virginia Cavalry |
| Abraham C. Myers | 1833 | Captain USA, Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; serves as the confederate Quartermaster-General |
| Daniel Ruggles | 1833 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; noted for his service at the Battle of Shiloh |
| Benjamin Eusebius Du Bose | 1833 | 2nd Lieutenant USA; service history unknown |
| Thomas H. Williamson | - (1833) | Brig. Gen. of Virginia Militia, Colonel CSA; was found deficient in 1830; taught at the VMI; served as Chief Engineer to Beauregard and Jackson |
| Robert T.P. Allen | 1834 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Kentucky Militia, Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War; found the Kentucky Military Institute; commanded the 4th and the 17th Texas Infantry |
| William T. Stockton | 1834 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Florida Militia, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War; served in the 1st Florida Cavalry, captured at the Battle of Missionary Ridge |
| Charles A. Fuller | 1834 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Kentucky Militia, Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War; served as an artillery officer |
| James Fairlie Cooper | 1834 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served in the 7th Georgia Infantry, resigned in 1861 |
| Thomas O. Barnwell | 1834 | 2nd Lieutenant USA; service history unknown |
| Goode Bryan | 1834 | Major USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War; served in several prominent Civil War battles, including the Battle of the Wilderness |
| Allan B. Magruder | - (1834) | Colonel CSA; dismissed from West Point in 1831; served in the Commissary Dept., brother of John B. Magruder |
| William H. Griffin | 1835 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; civil engineer; commanded Griffin's Battalion of Texas Infantry, later commanded the 21st Texas Infantry |
| Peter C. Gaillard | 1835 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel of South Carolina Militia, Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars; commanded the 27th South Carolina Infantry |
| James M. Wells | 1835 | Captain USA, Major USV, Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; commanded the 23rd Mississippi Infantry |
| Jones M. Withers | 1835 | Colonel USV, Colonel USA, Colonel of Alabama Militia, Major General CSA; Indian Wars and Mexican–American War |
| Larkin Smith | 1835 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Aroostook War, 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; served as Assistant Quartermaster General and head of the Tax-in-kind Bureau |
| Hugh McLeod | 1835 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Texas Militia, Colonel CSA; Indian Wars and Mexican–American War; commanded the 1st Texas Infantry, died of pneumonia on January 2, 1862 |
| Danville Leadbetter | 1836 | Captain USA, Colonel of Alabama Militia, Brigadier General CSA; served as an engineer in the Western Theater |
| Joseph R. Anderson | 1836 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Superintendent of the Tredegar Iron Works |
| Christopher Q. Tompkins | 1836 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel of Virginia Militia, Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; iron manufacturer; commanded the 22nd Virginia Infantry, relinquished field command and transferred to the Ordnance Dept. in 1862 |
| Lloyd Tilghman | 1836 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; captured then released at the Battle of Fort Henry; killed at the Battle of Champion Hill |
| Braxton Bragg | 1837 | Lieutenant Colonel USA, General CSA; 2nd Seminole War, Mexican–American War; a principal commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War; Fort Bragg is named after him |
| William W. Mackall | 1837 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel USA (declined), Brigadier General CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; served as Chief of Staff of the Army of Tennessee several times |
| Robert T. Jones | 1837 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Captain of Alabama Militia, Colonel CSA; Indian Wars; commanded the 12th Alabama Infantry, killed at the Battle of Seven Pines |
| Jubal Anderson Early | 1837 | Major USA, Lieutenant General CSA; Seminole Wars, Mexican–American War; never surrendered, escaping to Mexico and Canada until pardoned in 1868; established the Lost Cause point of view by writing articles for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s |
| Edmund Bradford | 1837 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; served as an Inspector General and Quartermaster General |
| John C. Pemberton | 1837 | Major USA, Lieutenant General CSA; Seminole Wars and Mexican–American War; defeated at the Siege of Vicksburg |
| Arthur M. Rutledge | 1837 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; 2nd Seminole War; served as an artillery officer |
| Arnold Elzey (Jones) | 1837 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Indian Wars and Mexican–American War; was promoted to Brigadier General on the battlefield of Manassas by Jefferson Davis |
| William H.T. Walker | 1837 | Major USA, Major General of Georgia Militia, Major General CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; Commandant of Cadets at West Point; killed at the Battle of Atlanta |
| Robert H. Chilton | 1837 | Major USA, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars and Mexican–American War; served as Inspector General and Chief of Staff to Robert E. Lee for most of the war |
| P.G.T. Beauregard | 1838 | Major USA, General CSA; military engineer; ordered the firing of shots at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, that started the Civil War |
| James H. Trapier | 1838 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel of South Carolina Militia, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War; served in the Western Theater and in South Carolina |
| William B. Blair | 1838 | Captain USA, Colonel of Virginia Militia, Major CSA; Mexican–American War; served in the Commissary Dept. |
| Henry C. Wayne | 1838 | Captain USA, Major General of Georgia Militia, Brigadier General CSA (declined); Mexican–American War; commanded the United States Camel Corps; served as Adjutant General of Georgia |
| Milton A. Haynes | 1838 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Captain USV, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Indian Wars and Mexican–American War; served as an artillery officer |
| William J. Hardee | 1838 | Lieutenant Colonel USA, Lieutenant General CSA; 2nd Seminole War, Mexican–American War; noted military tactician; fought in several battles during the American Civil War |
| Henry Hopkins Sibley | 1838 | Major USA, Major General CSA; 2nd Seminole War, Mexican–American War, Utah War; leader of the failed New Mexico Campaign; court martialed and censured in 1863 |
| Edward Johnson | 1838 | Major USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War, Seminole Wars, Utah War; captured twice during the American Civil War |
| Alexander W. Reynolds | 1838 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; served in the Western Theater |
| Carter L. Stevenson | 1838 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; 2nd Seminole War, Mexican–American War, Third Seminole War, Utah War; served mostly in the Western Theater |
| St. John R. Liddell | - (1838) | Brigadier General CSA; left West Point in 1835; commanded an infantry brigade and later a division in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Jeremy F. Gilmer | 1839 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; served as the Chief Engineer of the Confedereate States Army |
| Alexander Lawton | 1839 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; graduated from Harvard Law School (class of 1842); seriously wounded at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862 and served as the Confederacy's second Quartermaster General for the remainder of the war; served as U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary |
| Charles Wickliffe | 1839 | Major USA, Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War; commanded the 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh |
| Lewis Addison Armistead | - (1839) | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and Indian Wars; class of 1837, resigned in 1833, rejoined class of 1838 next year, found deficient and turned back into class of 1839 in 1835, resigned in 1836 facing dismissal for allegedly breaking a plate over the head of fellow cadet Jubal Early, later commissioned in the Regular Army; killed while leading a brigade at Gettysburg; brother of Frank S. Armistead |
| Paul Octave Hébert | 1840 | Lieutenant Colonel USA, Brigadier General CSA; graduated first in his class, Mexican–American War; Governor of Louisiana (1853–1856); served at the Siege of Vicksburg and in Texas; cousin to Louis Hébert |
| William H. Gilham | 1840 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major of Virginia Militia, Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; Commandant of Cadets at the VMI, author of "Manual of Instruction for the Volunteers and Militia of the United States" |
| John P. McCown | 1840 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Seminole Wars, Mexican–American War and Utah War; served in the Western Theater during the Civil War; court-martialled by General Braxton Bragg for disobedience of orders in March 1863 and suspended from duty for six months; subsequently served in North Carolina |
| Richard S. Ewell | 1840 | Captain USA, Lieutenant General CSA; performed escort duty along the Santa Fe Trail and Oregon Trail, Mexican–American War; left leg was amputated after the Second Battle of Bull Run, served in numerous battles in the East, brother of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell |
| James Green Martin | 1840 | Captain USA, Major General of North Carolina Militia, Brigadier General CSA; Aroostock War, Mexican–American War and Utah War; served as Adjutant General of North Carolina and afterwards in the East |
| Bushrod Johnson | 1840 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Tennessee Militia, Major General CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; served with distinction in many key battles such as the Battle of Chickamauga and Siege of Petersburg |
| Reuben P. Campbell | 1840 | Captain USA, Colonel CSA; 2nd Seminole War, Mexican–American War and Utah War; commanded the 7th North Carolina Infantry, killed at the Battle of Gaines's Mill |
| William Steele | 1840 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars and Mexican–American War and Utah War; served as a cavalry officer in the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Robert Plunket Maclay | 1840 | Captain USA, Major of Louisiana Militia, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars, Mexican–American War and Utah War; served in the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Thomas Jordan | 1840 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; 2nd Seminole War and Mexican–American War; operated a pro-Southern spy network in Washington, D.C., prior to the American Civil War and turned control of it over to Rose O'Neal Greenhow after the war began; served as staff officer in the Western Theater and in the defense of Charleston; afterwards served as General-in-Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army |
| Marcellus A. Stovall | - (1840) | Colonel of Georgia Militia, Brigadier General CSA; resigned from West Point in 1837 due to poor health; 2nd Seminole War; served as artillery and infantry commander in the Southern & Western Theaters and the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Smith Stansbury | 1841 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; clerk; served in the Ordnance Dept., died because of sickness on April 26, 1864 |
| Josiah Gorgas | 1841 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War; served as confederate Chief of Ordnance |
| Sewall L. Fremont | 1841 | Captain USA, Colonel of North Carolina Militia, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars and Mexican–American War; civil and military engineer |
| Samuel S. Anderson | 1841 | Captain USA, Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War and Third Seminole War; served as Adjutant General to Huger, Kirby Smith and Taylor |
| Samuel Jones | 1841 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; defended the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad and vital salt mines, commanded Department of Florida and South Georgia |
| Robert S. Garnett | 1841 | Major USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and Indian Wars; Commandant of Cadets at West Point (1852–1854); first general officer killed in the American Civil War; cousin of Richard B. Garnett |
| Richard B. Garnett | 1841 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War, Indian Wars and Utah War; killed during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg; cousin of Robert S. Garnett |
| Claudius W. Sears | 1841 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Seminole Wars; served in the Eastern Theater in 1861 and 1862, then served with the Army of Tennessee |
| John M. Jones | 1841 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Utah War; Second Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, killed at Battle of the Wilderness |
| Edward Murray | 1841 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars and Mexican–American War; served with the 49th Virginia Infantry |
| Abraham Buford | 1841 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War; performed escort duty along the Santa Fe Trail; commanded cavalry brigades and divisions in the Western Theater |
| George Washington Rains | 1842 | Captain USA, Brigadier General of Georgia Militia, Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War; managed iron works; established the Confederate Powderworks, brother of Gabriel J. Rains |
| Gustavus Woodson Smith | 1842 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; engineer; streets commissioner of New York City (1858–1861); temporary commander of the Army of Northern Virginia prior to Robert E. Lee taking command |
| Mansfield Lovell | 1842 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; participated in planning a filibuster expedition to Cuba in 1853/1854; commanded New Orleans until it was captured, afterwards served in the Western Theater and in Georgia |
| Alexander P. Stewart | 1842 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major of Tennessee Militia, Lieutenant General CSA; college professor; one of the most dependable commanders in the West, commanded the (division sized) remnants of the Army of Tennessee in 1865 |
| Martin L. Smith | 1842 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; civil and military engineer, planned defences and commanded a division at Vicksburg, served as Chief Engineer of the ANV and the AoT |
| Daniel Harvey Hill | 1842 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant General CSA; Mexican–American War; served in numerous battles in the Eastern and Western Theaters, later was sidelined because of his cantankerous personality and his outspoken quarrels by President Davis |
| Armistead T.M. Rust | 1842 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; performed escort duty along the Santa Fe Trail; commanded the 19th Virginia Infantry |
| Richard H. Anderson | 1842 | Captain USA, Lieutenant General CSA; Mexican–American War and Utah War; served in the Army of Northern Virginia, wounded at the Battle of Antietam |
| George W. Lay | 1842 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War; served as Adjutant General and Inspector General for Bonham and Joe Johnston, later served in the Bureau of Conscription |
| Eugene E. McLean | 1842 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War; served as Quartermaster General for A.S. Johnston, Joe Johnston, Bragg and P.G.T. Beauregard |
| Lafayette McLaws | 1842 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War and Utah War; inconsistent performance as a combat leader led court-martial, but the verdict was overturned |
| Earl Van Dorn | 1842 | Major USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War and Indian Wars; defeated at the Battle of Pea Ridge and Second Battle of Corinth; murdered on May 7, 1863 |
| James Longstreet | 1842 | Major USA, Lieutenant General CSA; Mexican–American War; ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1897–1904); served in the ANV and in Tennessee, Senior Lieutenant General of the Confederacy |
| James M. Goggin | - (1842) | 1st Lieutenant in the Army of the Republic of Texas, Major CSA, Brigadier General CSA (Special); left West Point in 1839; served as Adjutant General in the ANV, temporary commanded a brigade in Kershaw's division |
| Roswell S. Ripley | 1843 | Major USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War, Seminole Wars; fought in many battles with the Army of Northern Virginia, severely wounded at the Battle of Antietam, also served as a commander of coastal defenses |
| Samuel G. French | 1843 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; served as division commander in the Eastern and Western Theaters |
| Franklin Gardner | 1843 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War, Indian Wars and Utah War; served in the cavalry until 1862, known for his masterful defence of Port Hudson |
| Edmunds B. Holloway | 1843 | Captain USA, Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War; commanded the 1st Missouri State Guard Infantry, was accidentally shot by his own men on May 16, 1861 |
| Daniel M. Frost | 1844 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Missouri Militia, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and Indian Wars; when his family fled to Canada in 1863 he deserted and joined them |
| Francis J. Thomas | 1844 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War and Indian Wars; original commander of the 1st Maryland Infantry, relieved, killed at the First Battle of Bull Run while serving as Johnston's Chief of Ordnance |
| Simon Bolivar Buckner | 1844 | Captain USA, Lieutenant General CSA; Mexican–American War; Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Chickamauga, captured and released in a prisoner exchange; Governor of Kentucky (1887–1891) |
| William H.C. Whiting | 1845 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; graduated first in his class; commanded a division in the ANV, later served in North Carolina, died because of dysentery on March 10, 1865 |
| Louis Hébert | 1845 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Louisiana Militia, Brigadier General CSA; Chief Engineer of Louisiana and North Carolina, served in the Western Theater; cousin of Paul Octave Hébert |
| Thomas G. Rhett | 1845 | Major USA, Brigadier General of South Carolina Militia, Colonel CSA; served on Joe Johnston's staff, later served as Chief of Artillery of the Trans-Mississippi Dept.; became a Colonel in the Egyptian Army |
| Edmund Kirby Smith | 1845 | Major USA, General CSA; Mexican–American War and Indian Wars; commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department |
| James Morrison Hawes | 1845 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and Utah War; Chief of Cavalry for A.S. Johnston until the Battle of Shiloh, afterwards served with infantry and cavalry in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Richard C.W. Radford | 1845 | Captain USA, Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War and Indian Wars; commanded the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, probably sidelined because J.E.B. Stuart, resigned in 1862, later commanded the 1st Regiment Virginia State Line |
| Barnard E. Bee | 1845 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel of Utah Militia, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and Utah War; killed at the First Battle of Bull Run, brother of fellow confederate General Hamilton P. Bee |
| John A. Brown | 1846 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War and Seminole Wars; served as Chief of Artillery to E. Kirby Smith and classmate Dabney H. Maury |
| Thomas J. Jackson | 1846 | Major USA, Lieutenant General CSA; Mexican–American War; professor of natural and experimental philosophy and artillery at Virginia Military Institute (1851–1861); excelled in several battles during the American Civil War, including the First Battle of Bull Run where he received his nickname; accidentally shot and mortally wounded by his own troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville |
| John Adams | 1846 | Captain USA, Colonel of Minnesota Militia, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and Indian Wars; served in the cavalry, shot and killed by nine bullets at the Second Battle of Franklin |
| William Duncan Smith | 1846 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and Utah War; served in Georgia and South Carolina, died of yellow fewer on October 4, 1862 |
| Dabney H. Maury | 1846 | Lieutenant Colonel USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War, cavalry officer in Oregon and Texas; Battle of Pea Ridge, Battle of Corinth, Siege of Vicksburg; United States Ambassador to Colombia (1887–1889) |
| David R. Jones | 1846 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; served in the Army of Northern Virginia, died of heart failure on January 15, 1863; cousin to fellow confederate Richard Taylor and Jefferson Davis |
| Cadmus M. Wilcox | 1846 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; Seven Days Battles, Battle of Gettysburg; federal railroad chief after the American Civil War |
| William M. Gardner | 1846 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War; served in the Eastern Theater, later served in the Bureau of Prisons |
| Samuel B. Maxey | 1846 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Port Hudson; United States Senator from Texas (1875–1887) |
| George Pickett | 1846 | Major USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War; Pig War; gained national notoriety during Mexican–American War for bravery at Battle of Chapultepec; best known for his division's ill-fated charge at Battle of Gettysburg best known as Pickett's Charge; cousin to fellow confederate officer Robert Johnston |
| Birkett D. Fry | - (1846) | 1st Lieutenant USA, General in William Walker's Army, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and Walker's War in Nicaragua; dropped out of West Point in 1844 when he failed in mathematics; served in the Eastern Theater |
| Daniel M. Beltzhoover | 1847 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War; served in the staff of Twiggs in 1861, afterwards served as artillery and brigade commander in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Ambrose Powell Hill | 1847 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant General CSA; Mexican–American War, Seminole Wars; rose to corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia by war's end; was killed at Petersburg just seven days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House |
| Edward D. Blake | 1847 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Mexican–American War; served as Inspector General to Leonidas Polk and Hardee |
| Henry Heth | 1847 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; Mexican–American War and American Indian Wars; wrote the Army's first marksmanship manual in 1858; was the first confederate commander in contact with Union cavalry at Gettysburg |
| Walter H. Stevens | 1848 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; served as an engineer in the Eastern Theater |
| William E. Jones | 1848 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; nicknamed "Grumble Jones"; served in the cavalry in the American West until 1857; fought in the largest cavalry engagement of the war, the Battle of Brandy Station, and at the Battle of Gettysburg, killed in action at the Battle of Piedmont |
| William G. Gill | 1848 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars; originally from New Jersey he served as Chief of Ordnance to Robert E. Lee in 1861, then he was Chief of Ordnance and Artillery to Beauregard, died on June 7, 1862 |
| Thomas S. Rhett | 1848 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars; served as Inspector of the Ordnance Dept. in Richmond |
| Edward B. Bryan | 1848 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel of South Carolina Militia; died on April 28, 1861 |
| Charles H. Tyler | 1848 | Captain USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Utah War; served on the staff of Richard Ewell and J.E.B. Stuart, later served with the cavalry in the Western Theater, reputation as a drunkard |
| John C. Booth | 1848 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA, appointed Captain in Regular CSA; Seminole Wars; commanded the Fayetteville Arsenal, died on September 6, 1862 |
| Thomas K. Jackson | 1848 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; Indian Wars; Asst. Instructor of Infantry Tactics at West Point; served as Commissary General to A.S. Johnston and Joe Johnston |
| William Beall | 1848 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars; served with the cavalry and at the Siege of Port Hudson, while a POW he was appointed as supplying agent to the POWs and started to sell cotton in New York City |
| William T. Mechling | 1848 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; Indian Wars; served as Adjutant General in the Western Theater |
| Nathan George Evans | 1848 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars; nicknamed "Shanks"; noted for his exemplary services during the battles of Bull Run and Ball's Bluff, alleged drunkenness kept him away from field commands from 1863 on |
| George H. Steuart | 1848 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars and Utah War; nicknamed "Maryland Steuart" to distinguish him from J.E.B. Stuart; was a strict disciplinarian and prone to sneaking through his own lines past unwitting sentries in order to test their vigilance, on one occasion was pummeled and beaten by a sentry who later claimed not to have recognized the general, commanded the Maryland units in the ANV |
| Johnson K. Duncan | 1849 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; 2nd Seminole War; served in the Western Theater |
| John Creed Moore | 1849 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; 2nd Seminole War; served in the Western Theater, resigned in 1864 and was recommissioned a Lieutenant Colonel, commanded various arsenals |
| John T. Withers | 1849 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as Assistant Adjutant General of the Confederate States Army in the office next to Gen. Cooper |
| Beverly H. Robertson | 1849 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars; participated in several battles during the American Civil War, including the Battle of Gettysburg and Battle of Fredericksburg |
| Charles W. Field | 1849 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; American Indian Wars; fought in numerous battles in the Eastern Theater, including the Valley Campaign, Peninsula Campaign, Second Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Cold Harbor and the Siege of Petersburg |
| Seth Barton | 1849 | Lieutenant Colonel USA, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars; Valley Campaign, captured at the Siege of Vicksburg but released in a prisoner exchange, relieved of command after the Battle of Drewry's Bluff |
| Duff Cyrus Green | 1849 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Alabama Militia; served as Quartermaster General of Alabama |
| Thomas Greenhow Williams | 1849 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as Assistant Commissary General of the Confederate States Army and of the State of Virginia |
| Thornton A. Washington | 1849 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as Asst. Instructor of Infantry Tactics at West Point; served as Adjutant General to Robert E. Lee |
| John W. Frazer | 1849 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; his promotion to Brigadier was rejected by the Congress in response to his bloodless surrender in the Battle of the Cumberland Gap (1863) |
| Alfred Cumming | 1849 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Utah War; served in the Eastern and Western Theaters; became a member of the American Military Commission to Korea in 1888 |
| Samuel H. Reynolds | 1849 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; commanded the 31st Virginia Infantry until he resigned in December 1861 |
| James M. McIntosh | 1849 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars and Bleeding Kansas; killed at the Battle of Pea Ridge leading McCullock's division after the later was killed himself |
| Jacob Culbertson | 1850 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Captain CSA; Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West Point; served as an artillery officer |
| Achilles Bowen | 1850 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; civil and military engineer; served as an engineer on the staff of S.R. Anderson, resigned in 1861 |
| William T. Magruder | 1850 | Captain USA, Captain CSA; American Indian Wars; served in the Union Army until October 1862, served as a cavalry officer, killed at the Battle of Gettysburg |
| James Persons Flewellen | 1850 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; served as Superintendent of Conscription in Texas |
| Lucius M. Walker | 1850 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; commanded infantry and cavalry in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Dept., mortally wounded in a duel with fellow confederate general and West Point graduate John S. Marmaduke |
| Armistead L. Long | 1850 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Bleeding Kansas; served as staff officer and artillerist in the Eastern Theater |
| Robert Ransom | 1850 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; American Indian Wars and Bleeding Kansas; Asst. Instructor of Cavalry Tactics at West Point; commanded infantry and cavalry in the Eastern Theater |
| Charles Sidney Winder | 1850 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars; commanded the Stonewall Brigade, killed at the Battle of Cedar Mountain |
| N. Bart Pearce | 1850 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Arkansas Militia, Major CSA; served as infantry commander and commissary officer in the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| William Ransom Calhoun | 1850 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel of South Carolina Militia, Colonel CSA; commanded the 1st South Carolina Artillery Regiment, killed in a duel by fellow officer Alfred Rhett on September 5, 1862; nephew of John C. Calhoun |
| Robert Johnston | 1850 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Utah War and American Indian Wars; commanded the 3rd Virginia Cavalry, served on the staff of his cousin, Gen. George Pickett |
| Thomas Bingham | 1850 | 2nd Lieutenant USA |
| William Lewis Cabell | 1850 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; captured by Union forces during Price's Raid; held as a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island and Fort Warren; a civil engineer and attorney after the war; later elected to four terms as mayor of Dallas, Texas; served four years as a US Marshal |
| James H. Wilson | 1850 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served in the 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, resigned his post in 1862 |
| Robert Granderson Cole | 1850 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as Chief Commissary General for the ANV during the war |
| Alfred Mouton | 1850 | Captain USA, Brigadier General of Louisiana Militia, Brigadier General CSA; served in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Dept., killed at the Battle of Mansfield |
| James L. Corley | 1850 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Utah War; served as Chie Quartermaster General for the ANV during the war |
| Donald C. Stith | 1850 | Captain USA, Colonel CSA; Utah War; served as an Adjutant General and Inspector General on numerous staffs |
| Charles DeWitt Anderson | - (1850) | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA, (Acting) Brigadier General CSA; first Texan appointed to West Point, but resigned in 1848 when he was found deficient in math and French; commanded the 21st Alabama Infantry, surrendered at the Siege of Fort Gaines |
| William T. Welcker | 1851 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; Yakima War, served on the staff of Gen. Earl van Dorn |
| Caleb Huse | 1851 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Alabama Militia, Major CSA; Asst. Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology at West Point; served as one of the Confederacy's foremost weapons purchase agents in Europe |
| Benjamin Hardin Helm | 1851 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Kentucky Militia, Brigadier General CSA; commanded the famous Kentucky Orphan Brigade, killed at the Battle of Chickamauga; brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln |
| Junius Daniel | 1851 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; served in the Battle of Gettysburg, killed in action at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| Melancthon Smith | 1851 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; commanded corps artillery in the Western Theater |
| Edward A. Palfrey | 1851 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Louisiana Militia, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as assistant to Gen. Cooper at Richmond |
| John Thomas Shaaff | 1851 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Captain CSA; served as Commissary General to Gen. Villepigue |
| Laurence S. Baker | 1851 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; served as a cavalry officer, served in North Carolina after getting wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Joseph C. Ives | 1852 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; served as engineer on the staff of R.E. Lee in South Carolina, later on the staffs of John C. Pemberton and President Davis |
| George B. Anderson | 1852 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; served in the Eastern Theater, mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam |
| Henry de Veuve | 1852 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Captain CSA; served as engineer on the staff of Loring |
| George B. Cosby | 1852 | Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars; served as staff officer and cavalry command in the Western Theater |
| Robert B. Thomas | 1852 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General of Florida Militia, Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars; served as staff officer and on prison duty |
| Matthew L. Davis | 1852 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; American Indian Wars; serves as staff officer, commanded the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry for 11 days when he died on April 23, 1862 of pneumonia while en route to his new command |
| John Horace Forney | 1852 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; American Indian Wars and Utah War; served in all theaters; cousin to fellow Confederate generals Robert D. Johnston, Robert Hoke and Stephen D. Ramseur |
| Marshall Tate Polk, Jr. | 1852 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; American Indian Wars; served as Chief of Artillery for his relative Leonidas Polk; nephew and legal ward of President James K. Polk,relative of fellow Confederate Lucius E. Polk |
| Charles H. Rundell | 1852 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; American Indian Wars; served on the staff of Gabriel J. Rains, later worked with torpedoes in Texas |
| Philip Stockton | 1852 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; American Indian Wars and Bleeding Kansas; served as staff officer in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Arthur P. Bagby | 1852 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA, Major General CSA (unconfirmed); served in the Trans-Mississippi Dept, promotions to Brigadier General and Major General by E. Kirby Smith were unconfirmed, boarded and captured the USS Harriet Lane during the Battle of Galveston |
| Richard Vanderhorst Bonneau | 1852 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; American Indian Wars; served in the Commissary Dept. |
| St. Clair M. Morgan | - (1852) | Captain CSA; deficient in philosophy and left in 1851, served in the 10th Tennessee Infantry, killed at the Battle of Chickamauga |
| William R. Boggs | 1853 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; civil and military engineer; served as Chief Engineer of Georgia and as E.K. Smith's Chief of Staff |
| John S. Bowen | 1853 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel of Georgia Militia, Major General CSA; commanded a division in the Western Theater, died of disease after the Battle of Vicksburg |
| James L. White | 1853 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; American Indian Wars; served in the 19th South Carolina Infantry |
| Benjamin Allston | 1853 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel of South Carolina Militia, Colonel CSA; American Indian Wars; commanded the 4th Alabama Infantry |
| John R. Chambliss | 1853 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel of Virginia Militia, Brigadier General CSA; commanded a cavalry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, killed at the Second Battle of Deep Bottom |
| Henry B. Davidson | 1853 | Sergeant USV, Captain USA, Brigadier General CSA; Mexican–American War and American Indian Wars; served as a staff officer and cavalry commander in the Western Theater |
| Henry Harrison Walker | 1853 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Bleeding Kansas; commanded a brigade in the Eastern Theater |
| John Bell Hood | 1853 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant General CSA, (Temporary) General CSA; American Indian Wars; infantry commander in the Eastern and Western Theaters, famously wounded in battle on multiple occasions, youngest man on either side to lead an army when he took command of the Army of Tennessee at age 33 in 1864 |
| James A. Smith | 1853 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars, Bleeding Kansas and Utah War; commanded a division in the Western Theater |
| Thomas M. Jones | 1853 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; served as Commissary General to Bragg, commanded the 27th Mississippi Infantry |
| Lucius L. Rich | 1853 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; American Indian Wars and Utah War; commanded the 1st Missouri Infantry, mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh |
| Reuben R. Ross | 1853 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA, (Acting) Brig. Gen. CSA; served as artillery officer and Inspector General in the Western Theater, killed while resisting arrest at Hopkinsville, KY on December 21, 1864 |
| George Washington Custis Lee | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; graduated first in his class at West Point; son of Robert E. Lee. Captured at the Battle of Sailor's Creek. |
| James Deshler | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars and Utah War; commanded a Texan brigade in the Western Theater, killed at the Battle of Chickamauga |
| John Pegram | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Utah War and American Indian Wars; served as Chief Engineer to Beauregard and Bragg, later commanded cavalry and infantry divisions in the Trans-Mississippi Dept. and the Eastern Theater, killed at the Battle of Hatcher's Run |
| Charles G. Rogers | 1854 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as Inspector General of the Cavalry of the Army of Tennessee |
| J.E.B. Stuart | 1854 | Captain USA, Major General CSA; American Indian Wars; commanded the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia |
| Archibald Gracie | 1854 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Captain of Alabama Militia, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars; served as infantry commander in the Western, Southern and Eastern Theaters, killed in the Siege of Petersburg |
| Stephen D. Lee | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant General CSA; American Indian Wars; served as artillery officer in the Eastern Theater before he became an infantry commander in the Trans-Mississippi Dept. and the Western and Southern Theaters, youngest Lieutenant General in the Confederate States Army |
| William Dorsey Pender | 1854 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; American Indian Wars, served as artillery officer and infantry commander in the Army of Northern Virginia, mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg |
| John Bordenave Villepigue | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; American Indian Wars; Second Battle of Corinth, died of pneumonia in 1862; his descendant John Canty Villepigue was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War I |
| Abner Smead | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; John Brown's Raid; served as staff officer to Jackson and Ewell, later served as artillery officer in the Southern Theater |
| John O. Long | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as Adjutant General to Magruder |
| John T. Mercer | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; commanded the 21st Georgia Infantry Regiment, killed at the Battle of Plymouth |
| John B. Mullins | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Bloody Kansas and Utah War; commanded the 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment |
| Horace Randal | 1854 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA, Brigadier General CSA (unconfirmed); American Indian Wars; served as staff officer and cavalry commander in the Southern and Eastern Theaters and in the Trans-Mississippi Dept., killed at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry |
| Peyton H. Colquitt | - (1854) | Colonel CSA; class of 1853, deficient in maths and turned back into the class of 1854, resigned in 1853; served as infantry commander in the Western Theater |
| Lawrence B. Haynes | - (1854) | Captain CSA; deficient in French, left in 1851; served on the CSS Governor Moore and in the 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery |
| John V. Jordan | - (1854) | Colonel CSA; deficient and left in 1851; commanded the 31st North Carolina Infantry; probably mixed up with another John v. Jordan |
| William Kearney | - (1854) | 1st Lieutenant (disputed, rank up to Major) CSA; class of 1853, deficient and turned back into class of 1854, left in 1852; served as a staff officer in the Western Theater |
| Lewis H. Kenan | - (1854) | Lieutenant of Georgia Militia, Captain CSA; deficient in 1851; served in the 1st Georgia Regulars |
| James G. Montgomery | - (1854) | Captain CSA; deficient and left in 1852; served in the 1st Georgia Regulars |
| William R. Robertson | - (1854) | Rank unknown; deficient in maths and left in 1851; service history unknown |
| George R. Wilson | - (1854) | Major CSA; deficient in philosophy and chemistry in 1853; served as a staff officer |
| Richard Thomas Zarvona | - (1854) | Colonel CSA; resigned from West Point in 1851; served in the Second Italian War of Independence with either the French or the Sardinian Army; seized the Bostoner ship St. Nichols (later CSS Rappahannock) and raided merchant vessels, became a prisoner but was not considered a prisoner of war, paroled and resigned in 1863 |
| Frederick L. Childs | 1855 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars; Asst. Professor of Geology, History and Ethics at West Point; commanded several Arsenals and served with the 2nd North Carolina Local Defense Troops |
| Francis T. Nicholls | 1855 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Seminole Wars; a cannon shell severed his foot during the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863; served two terms as the Governor of Louisiana, served as a member of the West Point Board of Visitors |
| Francis A. Shoup | 1855 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Seminole Wars; college professor; served in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Dept., served as infantry and artillery commander and as a staff officer |
| John R. Church | 1855 | 2nd Lieutenant USA; American Indian Wars and Utah War; served in the artillery, died on January 9, 1863 |
| James Hoffman Hill | 1855 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; Utah War; served as Adjutant General to Barnard E. Bee and W.H.C. Whiting |
| Robert Clinton Hill | 1855 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Seminole Wars and Utah War; commanded the 48th North Carolina Infantry, died on December 4, 1864 |
| John Logan Black | - (1855) | Colonel CSA; class of 1854, deficient in math and turned back into the class of 1855, left in 1853; commanded the 1st South Carolina Cavalry Regiment |
| Allen A. Bursley | - (1855) | Major CSA; class of 1854, deficient in chemistry and turned back into the class of 1855, left in 1854; born in Massachusetts; served as an artillery officer |
| Wharton J. Green | - (1855) | Lieutenant Colonel CSA; first cadet admitted from California, class of 1854, deficient in maths and turned back into the class of 1855, resigned in 1851; commanded the 2nd North Carolina Infantry Battalion |
| Robert Crooke Wood Jr. | - (1855) | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; class of 1854, ill and turned back into the class of 1855, resigned the same year (1853) and later was directly commissioned; commanded the 1st Mississippi Cavalry |
| Charles C. Lee | 1856 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; taught at the North Carolina Military Institute; served as infantry commander in the Eastern Theater, was killed at the Battle of Glendale; cousin of Stephen D. Lee |
| Hylan B. Lyon | 1856 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars; served in all branches in the Western Theater |
| Lunsford L. Lomax | 1856 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; Indian Wars and Bleeding Kansas; served as staff officer and cavalry commander in the Western and Eastern Theaters |
| James P. Major | 1856 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars; served as artillery officer and cavalry commander in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| George Jackson | 1856 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; class of 1855, found deficient in engineer studies and turned back into class of 1856; Utah War; served as infantry and cavalry officer in the Eastern Theater; brother of William L. Jackson and cousin of Thomas J. Jackson |
| Frank S. Armistead | 1856 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Utah Expedition; served as staff officer, later commanded North Carolina Junior Reserves; brother of Lewis Armistead |
| William Hicks Jackson | 1856 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Indian Wars; served as cavalry commander in the Western Theater |
| Owen K. McLemore | 1856 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Bleeding Kansas and Utah Expedition; served in the 4th Alabama Infantry, killed at the Battle of South Mountain |
| Fitzhugh Lee | 1856 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA Major General USV; American Indian Wars, later served in the Spanish–American War; First Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Opequon, led the last charge of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, at Farmville, Virginia; Governor of Virginia (1886–1890) |
| Arthur S. Cunningham | 1856 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Utah Expedition; served as infantry officer and as Inspector General to Richard S. Ewell |
| Francis L. Campbell | - (1856) | Colonel CSA; found deficient in maths in 1853; commanded Louisiana infantry in the Western Theater |
| William W. Kirkland | - (1856) | 2nd Lieutenant USMC, Brigadier General CSA; resigned from West Point in 1855; served with the infantry in the ANV and in North Carolina, only USMC officer to become a Confederate General; nephew-in-law of William J. Hardee |
| Nathaniel E. Venable | - (1856) | 1st Lieutenant CSA; found deficient in maths and left West Point in 1854; served as an NCO in the 23rd Virginia Infantry before being commissioned into the Confederate States Marine Corps |
| Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; was a Union engineer at Fort Sumter and afterwards joined the CSA, died from sickness in 1862 |
| Edward Porter Alexander | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; served as staff officer and artillery commander in the Army of Northern Virginia, in charge of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg |
| William Proctor Smith | 1857 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; served as an engineer in the Army of Northern Virginia |
| Thomas J. Berry | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served in the 60th Georgia Infantry Regiment |
| Oliver H. Fish | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA; Utah Expedition; Confederate service history unknown, died shortly after the war in 1865 |
| Samuel W. Ferguson | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; Utah Expedition; commanded a cavalry brigade in the west |
| Manning M. Kimmel | 1857 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; Indian Wars and Cortina War; fought for the Union at the First Battle of Bull Run, served as staff officer in the west, father of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel |
| George A. Cunningham | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Utah Expedition; served as an infantry officer and later as heavy artillery officer in the east, west and south |
| Henry C. McNeil | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; Indian Wars; commanded the 5th Texas Cavalry Regiment |
| Aurelius F. Cone | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel or Colonel CSA; served in the Quartermaster Department and was Acting Assistant Quartermaster General of the CSA |
| Paul J. Quattlebaum | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; briefly served in the 5th Texas Infantry before becoming a staff and later artillery officer |
| John S. Marmaduke | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; Utah War; Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Cape Girardeau, Red River Campaign, mortally wounded fellow confederate general and West Point graduate Lucius M. Walker in a duel; Governor of Missouri (1885–1887) |
| George W. Holt | 1857 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Indian Wars; served as Adjutant General to S.D. Lee, Franklin Gardner, Richard Taylor and Nathan B. Forrest |
| Robert H. Anderson | 1857 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Brigadier General CSA; served as cavalry commander in the Western Theater |
| Lafayette Peck | 1857 | 1st Lieutenant USA; became a POW in Texas and was exchanged before joining the CSA, service history unknown, died in 1864 |
| Llewellyn P. Warren | - (1857) | Surgeon CSA; found deficient in maths in 1854; served as infantry officer and surgeon in various North Carolina regiments |
| Moses J. White | 1858 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; served as staff and artillery officer, commanded Fort Macon and later briefly a cavalry brigade, died in 1865 |
| Joseph Dixon | 1858 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Captain CSA; served as an engineer, killed at Fort Donelson |
| William H. Echols | 1858 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; was offered the colonelcy of the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment but declined on request of Jefferson Davis, served as Chief Engineer of South Carolina |
| John S. Saunders | 1858 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA, Colonel Maryland National Guard; served as artillery and staff officer |
| James H. Hallonquist | 1858 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as artillery and staff officer, commanded the Reserve Artillery of the Army of Tennessee |
| Leroy Napier | 1858 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; commanded the 8th Georgia Infantry Battalion |
| Solomon Williams | 1858 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; commanded the 12th North Carolina Infantry and later the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry regiments, was killed at Culpeper Court House |
| Richard H. Brewer | 1858 | 1st Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; served as cavalry and staff officer, mortally wounded at Piedmont |
| Andrew Jackson III | 1858 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; class of 1857, deficient in French in 1855 and turned back into class of 1858; commanded the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment, grandson of President Andrew Jackson |
| Bryan M. Thomas | 1858 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA, Brigadier General CSA (unconfirmed); served in infantry, artillery, cavalry and on staff duty in the Western and Southern Departments |
| William G. Robinson | 1858 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; commanded the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry Regiment |
| Ruffin Y. Ashe | - (1858) | Lieutenant CSA; found deficient in maths in 1856; served as Adjutant of the 11th Alabama Infantry Regiment, killed at Ream's Station |
| Robert C. Kennedy | - (1858) | 1st Lieutenant CSA; found deficient in maths in 1856; served as infantry and staff officer, was hanged as spy and arsonist in New York City in 1865 |
| James H. Powe | - (1858) | Captain CSA; class of 1857, deficient in maths and turned back into the class of 1858, resigned in 1855; served in the 1st (Butler's) South Carolina Regular Infantry |
| Samuel H. Lockett | 1859 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; served as Asst. Instructor of Small Arms and as Asst. Professor of Spanish at West Point; served as an engineer in the Western Theater; became a Colonel in the Egyptian Army |
| Charles R. Collins | 1859 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; commanded the 15th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, killed at the Battle of Todd's Tavern |
| Robert F. Beckham | 1859 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; commanded horse artillery in the ANV and corps artillery in the west, mortally wounded at the Battle of Franklin |
| Moses H. Wright | 1859 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; (Acting) Brigadier General CSA; commanded the Nashville Arsenal and later the Atlanta Arsenal |
| Joseph Wheeler | 1859 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; commanded a cavalry corps in the Western Theater |
| Isaac S. Hyams | - (1859) | Captain CSA; left the academy in 1856; served as infantry and staff officer in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi-Dept. |
| Benjamin Sloan | 1860 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; served in staffs and as ordnance and artillery officer in the Eastern and Southern Theaters |
| William W. McCreery | 1860 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Captain CSA; dismissed from the U.S. Army when he tried to resign mid-1861, served as ordnance and staff officer, killed at the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Stephen Dodson Ramseur | 1860 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major General CSA; served in the Eastern Theater, mortally wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek; cousin to fellow generals Robert Hoke, John H. Forney and Robert D. Johnston |
| John M. Kerr | 1860 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant CSA; class of 1859, suspended and turned back into the class of 1860, served as a cavalry officer, died of sickness in early 1862 |
| John R.B. Burtwell | 1860 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; class of 1859, deficient in engineering and turned back into the class of 1860, commanded the 11th Alabama Cavalry Regiment |
| Wade H. Gibbes | 1860 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; served as artillery officer in the Eastern Theater |
| Frank Huger | 1860 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; served as artillery officer in the Eastern Theater, son of Gen. Benjamin Huger |
| Harold Borland | 1860 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; originally class of 1858, turned back two times for various deficiencies, served as staff officer, son of Solon Borland |
| Charles S. Morgan, Jr. | - (1860) | Captain CSA; originally class of 1858, turned back and left for deficiencies in maths; served as staff officer in the Eastern Theater |
| Llewellyn G. Hoxton | May 1861 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as an artillery officer in the Army of Tennessee |
| Nathaniel R. Chambliss | May 1861 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA, 2nd Lieutenant ACSA; served in the Ordnance Dept. in the Western Theater |
| Charles E. Patterson | May 1861 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served in the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment, mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh |
| Charles C. Campbell | May 1861 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; served as a staff officer in the Western Theater and in the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment, resigned in April 1862 |
| Olin F. Rice | May 1861 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Colonel CSA; served as a staff officer and commanded the 2nd Alabama Reserves in the Western Theater |
| Mathias W. Henry | May 1861 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; served as an artillery officer in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Western Theater |
| Clarence Derrick | June 1861 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; commanded the 23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion; became a Colonel in the Egyptian Army |
| George Owen Watts | June 1861 | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA, served in all branches and as staff officer in the Western & Eastern Theaters and the Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
| Frank A. Reynolds | June 1861 | 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served in the 39th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; became a Colonel in the Egyptian Army |
| John Pelham | - (May 1861) | Major CSA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA (posthumously); commanded Stuart's Horse Artillery Btln., killed at the Battle of Kelly's Ford |
| Thomas L. Rosser | - (May 1861) | Major General CSA; resigned short of his graduation; served as an artillery officer and cavalry commander in the ANV; became a Brigadier General USV in the Spanish–American War |
| Charles P. Ball | - (June 1861) | Colonel CSA; commander of the 8th Alabama Cavalry |
| William H. Browne | - (June 1861) | Colonel CSA; commander of the 45th Virginia Infantry, mortally wounded at the Battle of Piedmont |
| Paul F. Faison | - (June 1861) | Colonel CSA; commander of the 56th North Carolina Infantry |
| John J. Garnett | - (June 1861) | Lieutenant Colonel CSA; was Chief of Artillery for David Rumph Jones and Richard H. Anderson, commanded Garnett's Artillery Battalion, Inspector of Artillery for the Army of Tennessee |
| John H. Kelly | - (June 1861) | Brigadier General CSA; resigned short of his graduation; served as an infantry officer in the Western Theater, mortally wounded at the Battle of Franklin |
| John Lane | - (June 1861) | Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served as staff officer and artillery commander in the Eastern Theater |
| John W. Lea | - (June 1861) | Colonel CSA; commander of the 5th North Carolina Infantry |
| Robert H. Logan | - (June 1861) | Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served in the 45th Virginia Infantry |
| Alexander D. Moore | - (June 1861) | Colonel CSA; commanded the 66th North Carolina Infantry, mortally wounded at the Battle of Cold Harbor |
| William F. Niemeyer | - (June 1861) | Lieutenant Colonel CSA; served in the 61st Virginia Infantry, killed on his 24th birthday at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| James P. Parker | - (June 1861) | Bvt. 2nd Lieutenant USA, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; deficient in conduct in 1861; served in the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery Regiment, was Chief of Artillery to Franklin Gardner and became a POW at Port Hudson |
| Felix H. Robertson | - (June 1861) | Brigadier General CSA; resigned short of his graduation; served as a staff and artillery officer in the Southern and Western Theaters, later commanded a brigade and division of cavalry; last surviving General of the Confederacy |
| David G. White | - (June 1861) | Major CSA; served in the 6th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion |
| Edward S. Willis | - (June 1861) | Colonel CSA; commanded the 12th Georgia Infantry, killed at the Battle of Totopotomoy Creek |
| Pierce M.B. Young | - (June 1861) | Major General CSA; resigned short of his graduation; served as a staff officer and cavalry commander in the ANV and the Carolinas |
| James Dearing | - (1862) | Colonel CSA, Brigadier General CSA (unconfirmed); resigned in 1861; served with the artillery and cavalry in the ANV, killed during the Appomattox Campaign |
| Henry S. Farley | - (1862) | Major CSA; resigned in 1860 as first cadet to go south; served as an artillery and staff officer in the Eastern Theater |
| Rice E. Graves | - (1863) | Major CSA; resigned in 1861; served as an artillery officer in the Western Theater, mortally wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga |
| Samuel Churchill Clark | - (1864) | Captain CSA; resigned in 1861; son of Meriwether Lewis Clark Sr.; served as artillery officer, killed at the Battle of Pea Ridge |
| Elisha S. Hopkins | - (1864) | 2nd Lieutenant CSA; found deficient in maths in 1862; served in the 43rd Tennessee Infantry |
| Richard M. Nelson | - (1864) | Captain CSA; resigned in 1861; served as infantry and staff officer |