List of West Point Cadets

Listing of graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Class of 1829
541 Charles Mason: After two years in the Army, pursued a career in railroads and politics in Wisconsin and mostly Iowa.

542  Robert E. Lee (1807-1870): An engineer on the frontier west of the Mississippi; served gallantly in the Mexican War. (Not a word about the Confederate general.)

543 William H. Harford: Four years in the Army, three years as chief engineer of the Lake Pontchartrain Canal, and died at 29. 544 J. Allen Smith Izard: Taught six years at the Academy, then resigned to a life of social graces as a Southern planter who summered in the North. 545 James Barnes: A railroad engineer. 546 Catharinus P. Buckingham: A total of four years in the Army, and a long civilian career spent teaching at first, but then mostly in iron and steel. 547 Joseph Smith Bryce: Taught at the Academy for two years, resigning to become an attorney; thirty years later, during the War between the States, served in a staff position in the Union Army. 548

John Mackay: A topographical engineer in the South and in Texas. 549

Charles W. Hackley: Four years in the Army, followed by twenty-five civilian years as an Episcopalian priest and a professor of mathematics. 550

Miner Knowlton: Seventeen years in the Army, including service in the Mexican War; sidelined by illness the rest of his life, an illness due to his military service. 551

John C. Casey: A life on the frontier, most of it in Florida during the Seminole Wars. 552

William R. McKee: Seven years in the Artillery, then resigned and was an attorney and railroad engineer in his home state; a Kentucky Volunteer in the Mexican War, he was killed at Buena Vista. 553

Joseph E. Johnston: Black Hawk War, Second Seminole War, bravery in the Mexican War, frontier service in Kansas and Utah, but not a word about his Confederate commands. After the War between the States, a term as U. S. Representative and four years as Commissioner of Railroads. 554

John F. Kennedy: A brief career of miscellaneous posts, ending in his assignment to Florida during the Second Seminole War, where he died of consumption. 555

O. McKnight Mitchel: A brief and unsatisfying Army career, followed by national prominence as an astronomer. 556

Gustavus Brown: Died in Chicago, three years after graduating, probably of cholera. 557

Sidney Burbank: Twenty-some years on the western frontier, with a break fighting in the Second Seminole War; fought for the Union in the War between the States; after the war, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. 558

William Hoffman: Most of his career was spent on the western frontier; served in the Black Hawk War and the Second Seminole War; fought in the Mexican War; in the War between the States, commander of the Union prisoner-of‑war system. 559

Charles Petigru: Even younger than the man he replaced as an engineer on the arsenal at Apalachicola, FL, he too died of tropical fever and was buried by the side of a local road. 560

Franklin E. Hunt: Mid-level career almost entirely on the western frontier, the first half in the Artillery and the second as a paymaster; fought for the Union in the War between the States. 561

Lancaster P. Lupton: Served on the western frontier but resigned within seven years; a civilian fur trader, farmer, merchant, and miner mostly in California. 562

Seth Eastman: A painter and illustrator of note, he served many years on the western frontier and documented Indian tribes; he also taught drawing at the Military Academy for seven years. 563

Thomas Swords: His first five years were in miscellaneous frontier posts, after which he found his niche as a quartermaster; fought in the Mexican War and for the Union in the War between the States. 564

Albemarle Cady: Thirty years on the western frontier, interrupted by combat in the Mexican War; the wounds received there would more or less sideline him from Union service during the War between the States. 565

Thomas A. Davies: Resigned after two years; a civilian engineer and New York merchant — but fought for the Union as a Volunteer in the War between the States. [+ AOG] 566

Albert G. Blanchard: Frontier duty for ten years, then six years of civilian life as a merchant and school administrator in New Orleans; fought in the Mexican War, then returned to civilian life in schools, surveying and railroads; during the War between the States served in the Confederate army. 567

Chileab S. Howe: Nine years in the Infantry, mostly in the South; on resigning became a planter in Alabama and Mississippi. 568

Caleb C. Sibley: An undistinguished forty-year career in the Infantry, most of it on the western frontier; at the outbreak of the War between the States, surrendered his post to the Confederacy, and was sidelined for the rest of the war. 569

James H. Wright: Died at his first post, fifteen months after graduating. 570

George A. Sterling: Resigned within three years; his civilian career was as an Episcopalian minister and farmer in Connecticut. 571

Joseph H. Pawling: Resigned after seventeen months; shadowy details of his civilian career; a government clerk, he died relatively young. 572

Antes Snyder: Resigned from the Army almost immediately; a railroad and canal engineer.

573 William H. Warfield: Resigned after three years on the western frontier; was a farmer in his home State of Maryland.

574 James Clark: Resigned after a year; ordained a Catholic priest, and taught mathematics and science at several universities; President of Holy Cross and Gonzaga Colleges.

575 James Allen (1806-1846): Seventeen years on the western frontier; in the Mexican-American War died on the march of the Mormon Battalion, of which he was the first commander. First officer buried at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery.

576 Jonathan Freeman: Eight years in the Army, in low-profile assignments; a civilian engineer and lawyer.

577 John P. Davis: Fifteen years on the western frontier, mostly as quartermaster; dismissed for financial irregularities.

578 George R. J. Bowdoin: Resigned after three years; his civilian career was as a lawyer in New York city.

579 Edwin R. Long: Infantryman, served in the Black Hawk War and in various northern garrisons; fought in the Second Seminole War.

580 Benjamin W. Brice: Resigned within three years; back in the Army during the Mexican War for two years; the third time, stayed for twenty-five years, served the Union in the War between the States and rose to Paymaster-General of the Army.

581 Robert W. Burnet: Resigned within four years, and the Register doesn't mention any civilian career. 582

James S. Moore: Resigned immediately; a medical doctor and planter in Georgia and Alabama. 583

Charles O. May: Died on the western frontier, six months after graduating. 584

Theophilus H. Holmes: Thirty-one years in the United U. S. Army, all on the western frontier except for combat in the Mexican War; fought for the Confederacy in the War between the States. 585

Edward R. Williams: Resigned after six years on the frontier, in the Old Northwest; no information on the rest of his life. 586

Richard B. Screven: Infantryman, assigned to any frontier where there was trouble: on the Canadian border; three tours of duty with combat in the Second Seminole War; fought in the Mexican War; died of illness not long after.


 * 1829 Roster