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West-Pointers in the two armies.--From a list before us of the West-Point graduates, who are officers in the armies of the United States and confederate States, it appears that there are in the United States army seventeen major-generals and twenty-four brigadier-generals; in the confederate States army, five generals (beside A. S. Johnson, killed at Shiloh,) eighteen major-generals, forty-one brigadier-generals.
From this list, which ends with 1848, it appears that we have sixty-four generals from West-Point in our army, while the United States have but forty-one.
It was no idle or unmeaning boast of President Davis that he had pick and choice of the officers of the old army.
Notwithstanding the frequent flings at West-Pointers, we may yet find it a cause of congratulation that we had at the head of our government one who was educated at West-Point himself, but who, by his service in the army and in the War Department, was so thoroughly acquainted with the military talent of all the United States officers.--Mobile Evening News, September 22.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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