Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.]
Who served in the Confederate States Army, with the highest Commission and highest command attained.
compiled by Captain W. Gordon McCABE, late Adjutant
Pegram's Battalion, A. P. Hill's Corps, Army
Northern Virginia, for the Association
of the graduates.
Reprinted with Additions and Corrections.Captain McCabe, in sending this list, says:
Although greatest vigilance has been exercised in compiling this roster of the graduates of the Military Academy, who entered the Confederate army, together with statement of highest rank obtained by them and dates of their commission, it is well nigh impossible that some errors should not occur, owing to the confused condition of existing records. The list of those who attained rank of Brigadier-General, Major-General, Lieutenant-General and of full General, is believed to be complete and exact. In justice to many brave and able young officers, who did not reach higher rank than that of regimental field officers, it must be remembered that many of these were killed or permanently disabled for further active service by severe wounds in 1861, and especially in 1862. Thus death or grievous wounds cut short many careers of brilliant promise. The great majority of officers named in this roster were wounded, some of them severely, three, four and five times, during the four years of the war, but this fact has not been noted in the roster. The simple record, as it stands, constitutes, together with that of the officers who served on the Union side, a brilliant vindication of the Military Academy, and of the methods, aims, and scientific training that have characterized this great nursery of able and accomplished soldiers since its foundation.The record of General Alexander P. Stewart has been filled out in the list below to show the general form in which all should be completed, though this record of General Stewart's service is too brief. [35] “Confederate States army” after an officer's rank signifies that such was his rank in the regular Confederate army. Otherwise, the rank given is that in the provisional army of the Confederate States. The figures on the left of the names are the numbers of the graduates in the whole list of graduates; those on the right the class rank. Those without a * are deceased.
1832.
Benjamin S. Ewell.
664. Born D. C. Appointed Virginia. 3. Colonel, April 24, 1861. Commanding (in 1861) Thirty-second Virginia Regiment, Army of the Peninsula, afterwards (1862) A. A. G. Department of East Tennessee, and in 1863 A. A. G. Western Department.Philip St. George Cocke.
667. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 6 Brigadier-General, October 21, 1861. Commanding in 1861 Fifth Brigade, First Corps, Army of Potomac. Died December 26, 1861.Richard G. Fain.
681. Born Tennessee. Appointed Tennessee. 20. Colonel, July 31, 1862. Commanding Sixty-third Tennessee Infantry, B. R. Johnson's Division. In 1863 was in Preston's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Tennessee; in 1864 in BrigadierGen-eral Johnson's Brigade, B. R. Johnson's Division, in Beauregard's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.George B. Crittenden.
687. Born Kentucky. Appointed Kentucky. 26. Major-General, August 15, 1861. Commanding District of East Tennessee, December, 1861; commanding Confederate forces at battle of Mill Springs, Ky., January 19, 1862. Resigned October 23, 1862. In 1864 commanding Reserve (as Colonel, Confederate States Army) in Department of East Tennessee.Robert H. Archer.
694. Born Maryland. Appointed Maryland. 33. Lieutenant-Colonel, October 1, 1861. Commanding Fifty-fifth Virginia Infantry; in 1862 Captain and A. A. G. to BrigadierGen-eral J. J. Archer.[36]
Richard C. Gatlin.
696. Born North Carolina. Appointed North Carolina. 35. Brigadier-General, July 8, 1861. Commanding Southern Department coast defences of North Carolina. Resigned September 8, 1862, but subsequently served as A. and I. General of State of North Carolina, with rank of Major-General.Humphrey Marshall.
703. Born Kentucky. Appointed Kentucky. 42. Brigadier-General, October 30. 1861. Detached command at Princeton, 1861-‘62; commanding district, Abingdon, Va., May, 1862. Resigned June 17, 1863. Member of Confederate States Congress.1833.
Francis H. Smith.
711. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 5. Breveted Major-General, April 24, 1861. Breveted Major-General of State forces; member of Governor's Advisory Council; Superintendent Virginia Military Institute.David B. Harris.
713. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 7. Brigadier-General, 1864. Chief-engineer (1st) of Army of Northern Virginia, (2d) of Department of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida.J. Lucius Davis.
722. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 16. Colonel, (1st) commanding Forty-sixth Virginia Infantry; (2d) Colonel, commanding Tenth Virginia Cavalry, Army of Northern Virginia.Abraham C. Myers.
738. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 32. Colonel, June 24, 1861. First Quartermaster-General, Confederate States Army, Richmond, 1861-‘62.Daniel Ruggles.
740. Born Massachusetts. Appointed Massachusetts. 34. Brigadier-General, April 9, 1861. Commanding Brigade in Army of Potomac, afterwards Brigade in Army of the West.[37]
