Name
Class year
Notability
References
Joseph Gilbert Totten
1805
Major General ; War of 1812 , Mexican–American War ; military and lighthouse engineer; Chief of Engineers (1838–1864)
[b] [ 1]
Gustavus Loomis
1811
Brigadier General ; Black Hawk War , Third Seminole War ; Superintendent of general recruiting during the American Civil War
[b] [ 2]
Ethan A. Hitchcock
1817
Major General ; grandson of Ethan Allen ; commandant of cadets at the Academy (1829–1833); Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; held several assignments in the War Department during the American Civil War; writer on alchemy and Jungian psychology ; collector of flute music
[b] [ 3]
Richard Delafield
1818
Major General ; 7th, 11th, and 13th Superintendent of the Academy (1838–1845), (1856–1861), (1861); in charge of New York Harbor defenses (1861–64); Chief of Engineers (1864–1866)
[b] [ 1]
John Joseph Abercrombie
1822
Brigadier General ; Black Hawk War , Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; colonel 7th U.S. Infantry , Battle of Falling Waters , commander 2nd Brigade, I Corps , Army of the Potomac , Peninsula Campaign , wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines , Battle of Malvern Hill , assigned to defenses of Washington, D.C., and various supply depots during the Overland Campaign , retired from active duty June 12, 1865.
[b] [ 4]
David Hunter
1822
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; First Battle of Bull Run , commander of the Union Army of the Shenandoah ; emancipated slaves in three states, which was rescinded, prior to the Emancipation Proclamation , president of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of President Lincoln .
[b] [ 5]
Joseph K. Mansfield
1822
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; civil engineer; mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam ; Fort Mansfield , a coastal artillery installation in Westerly, Rhode Island , named in his honor
[b] [ 6]
George A. McCall
1822
Brigadier General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; wounded and captured at Battle of Glendale , later released in a prisoner exchange
[b] [ 7]
George Wright
1822
Brigadier General ; Second Seminole War , Yakima War , Mexican–American War ; commander of the Department of the Pacific during the Civil War
[b] [ 8]
George S. Greene
1823
Brigadier General ; second cousin of General Nathanael Greene of the American Revolutionary War ; railroad and aqueduct engineer, founder of American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects ; defender of Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg
[b] [ 9] [self-published source ]
Lorenzo Thomas
1823
Major General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; Adjutant General of the U.S. Army; U.S. Secretary of War; Camp Thomas was named for him
[b] [ 10]
Robert Anderson
1825
Major General ; Black Hawk War , Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; commander of Fort Sumter at the start of the war
[b] [ 11]
Charles Ferguson Smith
1825
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Fort Donelson , injured his leg in a rowing accident and subsequently died of infection in 1862
[b]
Silas Casey
1826
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War , Pig War ; Battle of Seven Pines ; father of Brigadier General Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr.
[b] [ 12]
Samuel P. Heintzelman
1826
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War , Cortina Troubles ; First Battle of Bull Run , Peninsula Campaign , Second Battle of Bull Run ; commander of III Corps and XXII Corps of the Army of the Potomac
[b] [ 13]
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
1827
Major General ; Battle of Belmont , Battle of Island Number Ten , Siege of Corinth ; brother of Major General John Buford ; cousin of Confederate States Brigadier General Abraham Buford II
[b] [ 14]
Philip St. George Cooke
1827
Major General ; Black Hawk War , Mexican–American War ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Williamsburg , Battle of Gaines's Mill , Battle of White Oak Swamp ; father of Confederate States Brigadier General John Rogers Cooke ; father-in-law of Confederate States Major General J. E. B. Stuart
[b] [ 15]
James Barnes
1829
Major General ; railroad engineer; Battle of Shepherdstown , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Gettysburg
[b] [ 16]
Ormsby M. Mitchel
1829
Major General ; Great Locomotive Chase ; commander of X Corps ; Mitchell, Indiana , and Fort Mitchell, Kentucky , are named for him
[b] [ 17]
Robert C. Buchanan
1830
Brigadier General ; Black Hawk War , Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Gaines's Mill , Battle of Glendale , Battle of Malvern Hill , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Fredericksburg ; brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac and V Corps ; commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment and Fort Porter
[b] [ 18]
Jacob Ammen
1831
Brigadier General ; Battle of Cheat Mountain , Battle of Shiloh , Siege of Corinth , First Battle of Saltville ; brigade commander in the Army of the Ohio and division commander in the XXII Corps ; brother of Navy Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen
[b] [ 19]
Samuel Ryan Curtis
1831
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Pea Ridge , Battle of Westport ; commander of the Army of the Southwest and Army of the Border ; U.S. Representative from Iowa
[b] [ 20]
Andrew A. Humphreys
1831
Major General ; Seminole Wars ; Peninsula Campaign , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Bristoe Campaign , Battle of Mine Run , Overland Campaign , Siege of Petersburg , Battle of Sailor's Creek ; division commander in the III Corps ; commander of the V Corps and II Corps ; Chief of Engineers (1866–1875)
[b] [ 21]
Horatio P. Van Cleve
1831
Major General ; Battle of Mill Springs , Siege of Corinth , Battle of Perryville , Battle of Stones River , Battle of Chickamauga
[b] [ 22]
Erasmus D. Keyes
1832
Major General ; Puget Sound War , Spokane – Coeur d'Alene – Paloos War , Battle of Four Lakes ; commander of the IV Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War, First Battle of Bull Run , Peninsula Campaign , Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Seven Pines , Battle of Malvern Hill , Gettysburg Campaign , resigned in May 1864 after being relieved of command due to retreating in combat
[b] [ 23]
Randolph B. Marcy
1832
Brigadier General ; Inspector General of the U.S. Army; father-in-law of New Jersey Governor and Major General George B. McClellan
[b] [ 24]
James Vote Bomford
1832
Brigadier General ; Chief of Ordnance (1832–1848)
[b] [ 25]
Benjamin Alvord
1833
Brigadier General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; commander of the District of Oregon ; father of Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, Jr. ; the Alvord Desert is named after him
[b] [ 26]
Rufus King
1833
Brigadier General ; division commander in the Iron Brigade ; U.S. Minister to the Papal States ; grandson of U.S. Senator Rufus King ; father of Medal of Honor recipient Rufus King, Jr. and Brigadier General Charles King
[b] [ 27]
Thomas A. Morris
1834
Brigadier General , Indiana State Volunteers
[ 28]
Curran Pope
1834
Colonel ; commanding officer of the 15th Kentucky Infantry ; wounded in action at the Battle of Perryville after assuming command of the 17th Brigade, Third Division, I Corps , Army of the Ohio ; died November 6, 1862, of typhoid fever while recovering from his wound
[ 28]
Morris S. Miller
1834
Brevet Brigadier General ; Seminole Wars ; Mexican–American War ; Aroostook War ; Quartermaster of Washington, D.C., 1861–1864; Board for the Examination of Quartermasters in the Department of Arkansas and the Department of the Gulf , 1864–1865
[ 28]
Gabriel René Paul
1834
Brigadier General ; Seminole Wars ; Mexican–American War ; brigade commander, I Corps , Army of the Potomac ; Battle of Chancellorsville ; seriously wounded and blinded in action on the first day at the Battle of Gettysburg
[ 28]
Cary H. Fry
1834
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel ; physician ; Mexican–American War ; Paymaster, Washington, D.C., 1861–1863; Acting Paymaster-General, 1862; Chief Paymaster, District of Washington, D.C., 1863; Paymaster, San Francisco, 1863–1867
[ 28]
Seneca G. Simmons
1834
Colonel ; Seminole Wars ; commanding officer, 34th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry [5th Pennsylvania Reserves]; killed in action at the Battle of Glendale while in command of 1st Brigade, Third Division, V Corps , Army of the Potomac
[ 28]
Joseph L. Coburn
1834
Captain ; civilian employee of the Subsistence Department, Perryville, Maryland , 1861–1862; civilian employee Quartermaster Department, Chicago , Illinois , 1863–1864; reappointed captain in the U.S. Volunteers, 1864, serving at Chicago until 1865
[ 28]
Richard S. Smith
1834
Major ; served as a teacher of drawing at the U.S. Military Academy, 1840–1855; major, 12th U.S. Infantry ; commanded the regiment at the Battle of Chancellorsville ; resigned May 30, 1863, to accept appointment as president of Girard College , Philadelphia
[ 28]
William Scott Ketchum
1834
Brevet Major General ; Seminole Wars ; Bleeding Kansas ; served in various assignments including acting inspector general, Department of the Missouri and Department of the Mississippi, organizing Pennsylvania volunteers, Paymaster Department, and Quartermaster Department
[ 28]
Alexander Montgomery
1834
Major ; Seminole Wars ; Quartermaster at Indianapolis , 1861–1862; Quartermaster at Pittsburgh , 1862–1863; Mustering Out officer at Cleveland and Cincinnati , 1864–1865
[ 28]
Joseph Horace Eaton
1835
Brigadier General ; Mexican–American War ; artist; assistant Union Army paymaster during the American Civil War
[b] [ 29]
Herman Haupt
1835
Brigadier General ; Northern Virginia Campaign , Maryland Campaign , Gettysburg Campaign ; commander of United States Military Railroad
[b] [ 30]
John H. Martindale
1835
Major General ; Battle of Malvern Hill , Bermuda Hundred Campaign , Battle of Cold Harbor , Siege of Petersburg ; Military Governor of Washington, D.C.; Attorney General of New York ; son of U.S. Representative Henry C. Martindale
[b] [ 31]
George Meade
1835
Major General ; civil and lighthouse engineer; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Appomattox Campaign , defeated Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg , commander Army of the Potomac (1863–1865); Fort George G. Meade in Maryland , home of the National Security Agency named in his honor
[b] [ 32]
Henry Morris Naglee
1835
Brigadier General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Seven Pines ; brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac ; commander of the VII Corps ; Naglee Park in San Jose, California , is named for him
[b] [ 33]
Marsena R. Patrick
1835
Major General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Gettysburg ; brigade commander in the I Corps ; Military Governor of Fredericksburg, Virginia
[b] [ 34]
Benjamin S. Roberts
1835
Major General ; Mexican–American War , Indian Wars ; Battle of Valverde , Battle of Cedar Mountain , Second Battle of Rappahannock Station , Second Battle of Bull Run ; division commander in the VIII Corps and XIX Corps
[b] [ 35]
Robert Allen
1836
Brigadier General ; Mexican–American War ; Vicksburg Campaign , Atlanta Campaign
[b] [ 36]
Montgomery C. Meigs
1836
Major General ; Battle of Fredericksburg ; Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army
[b] [ 37]
John W. Phelps
1836
Brigadier General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War , Utah War ; Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip ; commander of the 1st Vermont Infantry ; candidate for President of the United States
[b] [ 38]
Daniel Phineas Woodbury
1836
Brigadier General ; First Battle of Bull Run , Peninsula Campaign , Northern Virginia Campaign , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg ; superintended the construction of Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie
[b] [ 39]
Alexander Brydie Dyer
1837
Major General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; commander of the Springfield Armory
[b] [ 40]
William H. French
1837
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; brigade commander at Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Seven Pines , Battle of Oak Grove , Battle of Gaines's Mill , Battle of Garnett's & Golding's Farm , Battle of Savage's Station , Battle of Glendale , Battle of Malvern Hill , division commander in Northern Virginia Campaign , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Gettysburg Campaign , Battle of Mine Run ; commander of VIII Corps and III Corps ; commander of Fort McDowell and Fort McHenry
[b] [ 41]
Joseph Hooker
1837
Major General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; Battle of Williamsburg , Seven Days Battles , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Gettysburg Campaign , Battle of Lookout Mountain , Chattanooga Campaign , Atlanta Campaign ; commander of I Corps , V Corps , and XX Corps ; commander of the Army of the Potomac ; brother-in-law of U.S. Representative William S. Groesbeck
[b] [ 42]
John Sedgwick
1837
Major General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War , Utah War , Indian Wars ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Seven Pines , wounded at the Battle of Glendale and Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Salem Church , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of the Wilderness , killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ; division commander in the Army of the Potomac ; commander of the II Corps , IX Corps , and VI Corps
[b] [ 43]
John Blair Smith Todd
1837
Brigadier General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; U.S. Congressional Delegate from the Dakota Territory ; cousin by marriage of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate States Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm ; Todd County, South Dakota , and Todd County, Minnesota , are named for him
[b] [ 44]
Buckner Board
1838
Colonel ; Seminole Wars ; colonel 2nd Kentucky Cavalry , resigned December 25, 1862
[b] [ 28]
Robert S. Granger
1838
Brigadier General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; commander of Districts of Nashville, Middle Tennessee, and Northern Alabama
[b] [ 45]
Irvin McDowell
1838
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; defeated at First Battle of Bull Run
[b] [ 46]
Andrew Jackson Smith
1838
Major General ; Mexican–American War , Indian Wars ; Vicksburg Campaign , Red River Campaign , Battle of Tupelo , Battle of Nashville
[b] [ 47]
Edward Canby
1839
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War , Utah War , Navajo War of 1860 , Modoc War ; Battle of Valverde , Battle of Glorieta Pass , Battle of Peralta , Battle of Spanish Fort , Battle of Fort Blakely ; commander of Fort Defiance ; commander of the Second Military District and Fifth Military District ; Canby, Oregon , Canby, Minnesota , and Canby, California , are named for him
[b] [ 48]
Henry Wager Halleck
1839
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Shiloh , Siege of Corinth ; General-in-Chief of the Union Army; Army Chief of Staff; grandson-in-law of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton ; brother-in-law of Major General Schuyler Hamilton
[b] [ 49]
Henry Jackson Hunt
1839
Major General ; Mexican–American War , Utah War ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Malvern Hill , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Gettysburg , Siege of Petersburg
[b] [ 50]
Edward Ord
1839
Major General ; Indian Wars ; Battle of Dranesville , Battle of Hatchie's Bridge , Siege of Vicksburg , Third Battle of Petersburg ; commander of the XIII Corps ; commander of the Army of the James ; commander of the Fourth Military District
[b] [ 51]
Isaac Stevens
1839
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Fort Pulaski , Battle of James Island , Second Battle of Bull Run , killed at the Battle of Chantilly ; U.S. Congressional Delegate from the Washington Territory ; father of Brigadier General and Medal of Honor recipient Hazard Stevens ; Fort Stevens in Washington, D.C., and Fort Stevens in Oregon were named for him
[b] [ 52]
George W. Getty
1840
Major General ; Mexican–American War , Seminole Wars ; Peninsula Campaign , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Gettysburg Campaign , wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness , Siege of Petersburg , Valley Campaigns of 1864 ; division commander in the Army of the Potomac
[b] [ 53]
William Hays
1840
Brigadier General ; Mexican–American War , Seminole Wars ; Battle of Seven Pines , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg ; brigade commander in the II Corps ; commander of the II Corps
[b] [ 54]
William Tecumseh Sherman
1840
Major General ; Battle of Shiloh , Vicksburg Campaign , Chattanooga Campaign , Atlanta Campaign , Carolinas Campaign , led the brutal Savannah Campaign (March to the Sea) from Atlanta to Savannah that demoralized the South; Commanding General of the United States Army (1869–1883)
[b] [ 55]
George Henry Thomas
1840
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Mill Springs , Battle of Perryville , Battle of Stones River , Battle of Chickamauga , Battle of Missionary Ridge , Battle of Nashville ; division commander in the Army of the Ohio ; commander of the Army of the Cumberland ; Fort Thomas, Kentucky , is named for him
[b] [ 56]
Stewart Van Vliet
1840
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War , Utah War ; chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac , quartermaster in New York City
[b] [ 57]
John Milton Brannan
1841
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Saint John's Bluff , Tullahoma Campaign , Chickamauga Campaign , Battle of Missionary Ridge , Battle of Resaca , Battle of Dallas , Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
[b] [ 58]
William T. H. Brooks
1841
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; Peninsula Campaign , wounded at the Battle of Savage's Station , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Gettysburg Campaign , Battle of Cold Harbor , Siege of Petersburg ; brigade commander in the IV Corps and VI Corps ; commander of the Department of the Monongahela ; division commander in the XVIII Corps
[b] [ 59]
Don Carlos Buell
1841
Major General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; Battle of Shiloh , Siege of Corinth , Battle of Perryville ; commander of the Army of the Ohio; first cousin of Brigadier General George P. Buell
[b] [ 60]
Albion P. Howe
1841
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Gettysburg , relieved of division level command after Gettysburg, served in the honor guard that stood watch over the corpse of Abraham Lincoln , member of the military commission that tried the Lincoln conspirators
[b] [ 61]
Nathaniel Lyon
1841
Brigadier General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War , Bloody Island Massacre ; involved in early battles in Missouri , first Union general killed in the American Civil War, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek
[b] [ 62]
John F. Reynolds
1841
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Seven Days Battles , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , killed at the very start of the Battle of Gettysburg ; brother of Rear Admiral Will Reynolds
[b] [ 63]
Israel B. Richardson
1841
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Mexican–American War ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Seven Pines , Seven Days Battles , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of South Mountain , mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam ; descendant of Major General Israel Putnam ; Fort Richardson was named for him
[b] [ 64]
Horatio Wright
1841
Major General ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Gettysburg , Mine Run Campaign , Overland Campaign , Valley Campaigns of 1864 , Siege of Petersburg , Appomattox Campaign , commander of the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac (1864–1865); Chief of Engineers (1879–1884)
[b] [ 1]
Darius N. Couch
1842
Brigadier General ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Williamsburg , Battle of Seven Pines , Battle of Oak Grove , Battle of Malvern Hill , Maryland Campaign , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Gettysburg Campaign , Franklin-Nashville Campaign , Carolinas Campaign ; brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac ; division commander in the VI Corps and XXIII Corps ; commander of the II Corps ; commander of the Department of the Susquehanna
[b] [ 65]
Abner Doubleday
1842
Major General ; Mexican–American War , Indian Wars ; Peninsula Campaign , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Gettysburg , Valley Campaigns of 1864 ; division commander in the Army of the Potomac ; brigade commander in the III Corps ; division commander in the I Corps ; the Navy vessel SS Abner Doubleday was named for him; the Auburn Doubledays are named for him; Doubleday Field is named for him
[b] [ 66]
John Newton
1842
Brigadier General ; Utah War ; coastal fortifications engineer; I Corps commander, Peninsula Campaign , Maryland Campaign , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Gettysburg ; Chief of Engineers (1884–1886); Commissioner of Public Works, New York City (1886–88); President, Panama Railroad Company (1888–95)
[b] [ 1]
John Pope
1842
Major General ; topographic engineer and surveyor; Dakota War of 1862 , Apache Wars ; defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run , commander of Army of the Mississippi and Army of Virginia
[b] [ 67]
William Rosecrans
1842
Major General ; commander Army of the Cumberland , Battle of Stones River , Tullahoma Campaign , Battle of Chickamauga ; U.S. Minister to Mexico (1868–1969); U.S. Representative from California (1881–1885); Register of the Treasury (1885–1893)
[b] [ 68]
George Sykes
1842
Major General ; Seminole Wars , Mexican–American War ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Gaines's Mill , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Mine Run Campaign ; battalion commander in the 14th Infantry Regiment ; division commander in the V Corps ; commander of the V Corps
[b] [ 69]
Christopher C. Augur
1843
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; wounded at the Battle of Cedar Mountain , Siege of Port Hudson ; division commander in the Army of the Gulf ; commander of the XII Corps ; commander of the Department of the Platte ; Camp Augur was named for him
[b] [ 70]
William B. Franklin
1843
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Peninsula Campaign , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Gettysburg Campaign , wounded at the Battle of Mansfield ; great-grandson of Continental Congressional Delegate Samuel Rhoads
[b] [ 71]
Ulysses S. Grant
1843
General of the Army of the United States ; Mexican–American War ; Siege of Vicksburg , Chattanooga Campaign , Siege of Petersburg , accepted Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House ; 18th President of the United States (1869–1877)
[b] [ 72]
Charles Smith Hamilton
1843
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Iuka , Second Battle of Corinth ; division commander in the Army of the Potomac and the III Corps
[b] [ 73]
Rufus Ingalls
1843
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Peninsula Campaign , Northern Virginia Campaign , Maryland Campaign ; Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army
[b] [ 74]
Henry M. Judah
1843
Brigadier General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Shiloh , Siege of Corinth , Battle of Buffington Island , Battle of Resaca ; division commander in the XXIII Corps
[b] [ 75]
John J. Peck
1843
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Williamsburg , Battle of Fair Oaks , Seven Days Battles , Battle of Malvern Hill , Battle of Hill's Point ; brigade commander in the IV Corps
[b] [ 76]
Winfield Scott Hancock
1844
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of the Wilderness , Battle of Spotsylvania Court House , led the Army of the Potomac ; Democratic Party nominee for President (1880)
[b] [ 77]
Alexander Hays
1844
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Williamsburg , Battle of Seven Pines , Battle of Savage's Station , Battle of Malvern Hill , Seven Days Battles , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Harpers Ferry , Battle of Gettysburg , Bristoe Campaign , Battle of Mine Run , killed at the Battle of the Wilderness ; brigade commander in the XXII Corps and II Corps ; son of U.S. Representative Samuel Hays ; Fort Hays was named for him
[b] [ 78]
Alfred Pleasonton
1844
Major General ; Peninsula Campaign , wounded at the Battle of Antietam , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Brandy Station , Battle of Byram's Ford , Battle of Marais des Cygnes ; brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac ; Internal Revenue Service Commissioner; Pleasanton, California , and Pleasanton, Kansas , are named for him
[b] [ 79]
Gordon Granger
1845
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Wilson's Creek , Battle of Island Number Ten , Siege of Corinth , Battle of Chickamauga , Chattanooga Campaign , Battle of Mobile Bay , Battle of Fort Blakely ; division commander in the Army of the Mississippi; commander of the Army of Kentucky ; commander of the IV Corps and XIII Corps
[b] [ 80]
John Porter Hatch
1845
Major General ; fought in the Mexican War where he was breveted twice for bravery in battle; awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery at the Battle of South Mountain during the Maryland Campaign where he was wounded and had two mounts shot from underneath him; later served on the western frontier; retired to New York City and was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893
[b] [ 81] [ 82]
Fitz John Porter
1845
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Gaines's Mill , Battle of Malvern Hill , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Antietam ; division commander in the Army of the Potomac ; nephew of Navy Commodore David Porter ; cousin of Navy Commodore William D. Porter and Navy Admirals David Dixon Porter and David Farragut
[b] [ 83]
David Allen Russell
1845
Brigadier General ; Mexican–American War , Rogue River Wars , Yakima War ; Seven Days Battles , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Overland Campaign , killed at the Battle of Opequon ; son of U.S. Representative David Abel Russell ; Fort D.A. Russell was named for him
[b] [ 84]
William Farrar Smith
1845
Major General ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of White Oak Swamp , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Gettysburg Campaign , Battle of Wauhatchie , Battle of Cold Harbor , Siege of Petersburg ; commander of the VI Corps and XVIII Corps ; U.S. Consul in Guaymas, Mexico ; cousin of Vermont Governor J. Gregory Smith
[b] [ 85]
Charles Pomeroy Stone
1845
Brigadier General ; Lieutenant General in the Egyptian Army ; Mexican–American War ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Ball's Bluff , Siege of Petersburg ; division and brigade commander in the Union Army of the Shenandoah
[b] [ 86]
Thomas J. Wood
1845
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Shiloh , wounded at the Battle of Stones River , Battle of Chickamauga , Battle of Missionary Ridge , wounded at the Battle of Lovejoy's Station , Battle of Nashville ; division commander in the Army of the Ohio and Army of the Cumberland ; commander of the IV Corps
[b] [ 87]
Charles Champion Gilbert
1846
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Wilson's Creek , Battle of Shiloh , Siege of Corinth , Battle of Perryville , Battle of Franklin ; commander of the Army of Kentucky
[b] [ 88]
George Henry Gordon
1846
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Antietam ; brigade commander in the XII Corps ; division commander in the XII Corp and XI Corps
[b] [ 89]
George B. McClellan
1846
Major General ; developed the McClellan Saddle ; organized the Army of the Potomac after the Union forces were defeated at First Battle of Bull Run , Peninsula Campaign , Battle of Antietam ; son George B. McClellan, Jr. served as United States Representative from New York (1895–1903) and as Mayor of New York City (1904–1909)
[b] [ 90]
Innis N. Palmer
1846
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Indian Wars ; First Battle of Bull Run , Seven Days Battles , Battle of Wyse Fork ; grandfather of Major General Innis P. Swift
[b] [ 91]
Jesse L. Reno
1846
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Burnside's North Carolina Expedition , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Chantilly , killed at the Battle of South Mountain ; Fort Reno in Oklahoma and Fort Reno in Wyoming were named for him; Reno, Nevada , is named for him; Reno County, Kansas , is named for him
[b] [ 92]
Truman Seymour
1846
Brigadier General ; Mexican–American War , Third Seminole War ; Battle of Fort Sumter , Battle of Beaver Dam Creek , Battle of Gaines' Mill , Battle of Glendale , Battle of Malvern Hill . Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Olustee , Battle of the Wilderness , Siege of Petersburg , Battle of Sayler's Creek , Appomattox Campaign ; commander of Camp Curtin ; brigade commander in the VI Corps ; division commander in the VI Corps; commander of Fort Warren and Fort Preble
[b] [ 93]
George Stoneman
1846
Major General ; Seven Days Battles , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Atlanta Campaign ; commander of Fort Brown ; division commander in the II Corps and III Corps ; corps commander in the Army of the Ohio ; Governor of California ; Camp Stoneman was named for him
[b] [ 94]
Samuel D. Sturgis
1846
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Wilson's Creek , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Dandridge , Battle of Fair Garden , Battle of Brice's Crossroads ; division commander in the IX Corps ; grandfather of Lieutenant General Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr. ; the Navy vessel USS General S. D. Sturgis was named for him; Sturgis, South Dakota , is named for him
[b] [ 95]
Romeyn B. Ayres
1847
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Blackburn's Ford , First Battle of Bull Run , Peninsula Campaign , Seven Days Battles , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Overland Campaign , Siege of Petersburg , Appomattox Campaign ; brigade commander in the V Corps
[b] [ 96]
Ambrose Burnside
1847
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Roanoke Island , Battle of New Bern , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Campbell's Station , Battle of Fort Sanders , Battle of the Wilderness , Battle of Spotsylvania Court House , Battle of Cold Harbor , Siege of Petersburg , Battle of the Crater ; commander of the First Regiment Rhode Island U.S. Volunteers ; commander of the I Corps and IX Corps ; commander of the Army of the Potomac ; commander of the Department of the Ohio ; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island ; Governor of Rhode Island
[b] [ 97]
John G. Foster
1847
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Battle of Fort Sumter , Battle of Roanoke Island , Battle of New Bern , Battle of Fort Macon , Battle of Washington , Battle of Kinston , Battle of White Hall , Battle of Goldsborough Bridge , Second Battle of Charleston Harbor , Knoxville Campaign , Sherman's March to the Sea ; commander of the Department of the Ohio and the Army of the Ohio
[b] [ 98]
James Barnet Fry
1847
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; Provost Marshal General; Adjutant General of the U.S. Army
[b] [ 99]
John Gibbon
1847
Major General ; Mexican–American War , Seminole Wars , Great Sioux War of 1876–77 , Nez Perce War ; Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Second Battle of Fredericksburg , wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of the Wilderness , Battle of Spotsylvania Court House , Battle of Cold Harbor , Siege of Petersburg , Battle of Appomattox Court House ; commander of the Iron Brigade ; division commander in the I Corps and II Corps ; commander of XVIII Corps and XXIV Corps ; commander of the Department of the Platte ; cousin of Confederate States Brigadier General J. Johnston Pettigrew ; Gibbon, Minnesota , is named for him
[b] [ 100]
Charles Griffin
1847
Major General ; Mexican–American War ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Gaines' Mill , Battle of Malvern Hill , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of Mine Run , Overland Campaign , Siege of Petersburg , Battle of Five Forks ; division commander in the V Corps ; commander of the V Corps; Fort Griffin was named for him
[b] [ 101]
Egbert Ludovicus Viele
1847
Brigadier General ; Mexican–American War ; served at siege of Fort Pulaski and was appointed Military Governor of Norfolk, Virginia , resigned in 1863 to engage in civil engineering; created the Viele Map of New York City; U.S. Representative from New York (1885–1887)
[b] [ 102]
Orlando B. Willcox
1847
Major General ; awarded the Medal of Honor in 1895 for gallantry at the First Battle of Bull Run where he was captured; later released as part of a prisoner exchange and served in the Virginia and North Carolina theaters at the end of the war
[b] [ 103] [ 104]
John Buford
1848
Major General ; Bleeding Kansas , Utah War ; Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Brandy Station , Battle of Upperville , Battle of Gettysburg , Bristoe Campaign ; brigade commander in the II Corps ; brother of Major General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford ; cousin of Confederate States Brigadier General Abraham Buford II ; Fort Buford was named for him
[b] [ 105]
James Chatham Duane
1848
Brigadier General ; Utah War ; Battle of Harpers Ferry ; Chief of Engineers (1886–1888); grandson of Continental Congressional Delegate James Duane
[b] [ 106]
Absalom Baird
1849
Major General ; attended Washington & Jefferson College before graduating from West Point; earned fame for actions at the Battle of Chickamauga , Third Battle of Chattanooga , and Battle of Jonesborough ; received the Medal of Honor in 1896 for his actions at Jonesborough; later received the French Légion d'honneur
[b] [ 81] [ 107]
John Parke
1849
Major General ; Battle of Fort Macon , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Vicksburg Campaign , Overland Campaign , Siege of Petersburg , Battle of the Crater , Battle of Globe Tavern , Battle of Peebles's Farm , Battle of Boydton Plank Road , Battle of Fort Stedman , Third Battle of Petersburg ; division commander in the IX Corps ; commander of the IX Corps and XXII Corps ; commander of the Army of the Potomac ; Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
[b] [ 108]
Rufus Saxton
1849
Brigadier General ; Battle of Harpers Ferry ; recipient of the Medal of Honor
[b] [ 109]
Eugene Asa Carr
1850
Major General ; Indian Wars , Bleeding Kansas , Utah War ; Battle of Wilson's Creek , Battle of Pea Ridge , Battle of Port Gibson , Battle of Champion Hill , Camden Expedition , Battle of Fort Blakely ; division commander in the Army of the Southwest ; division commander in the XIII Corps and VII Corps ; recipient of the Medal of Honor
[b] [ 110]
Adam J. Slemmer
1850
Brigadier General ; Seminole Wars ; incapacitated by wounds at Battle of Stones River
[b] [ 111]
Gouverneur K. Warren
1850
Major General ; commended at the battle of Little Round Top , Chief of Engineers of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War; participated in topographical and railroad explorations of the Mississippi River and trans-Mississippi West
[b] [ 112]
Alvan Cullem Gillem
1851
Major General ; Second Seminole War , Modoc War ; Battle of Mill Springs
[b] [ 113]
Charles Henry Tompkins
1851 ex
Dropped out of the Academy after two years for unspecified reasons; Brigadier General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for twice charging through the enemy's lines on July 1, 1861, near Fairfax, Virginia , making him the first Union officer of the Civil War to receive the Medal of Honor
[b] [ 103] [ 114]
George Crook
1852
Major General ; Indian Wars ; Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Chickamauga , Battle of Cloyd's Mountain , Third Battle of Winchester , Battle of Fisher's Hill , Battle of Cedar Creek , Appomattox Campaign ; brigade commander in the Kanawha Division ; division commander in the Army of the Cumberland ; commander of the VIII Corps ; Fort Crook was named for him; the General Crook House is named for him; Crook, Colorado , is named for him; Crook County, Wyoming , and Crook County, Oregon , are named for him
[b] [ 115]
August Kautz
1852
Major General ; Mexican–American War , Rogue River War , Puget Sound War ; Peninsula Campaign , Battle of Fort Sanders ; division commander in the XXV Corps
[b] [ 116]
Alexander McDowell McCook
1852
Major General ; Indian Wars ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Shiloh , Siege of Corinth , Battle of Perryville , Battle of Stones River , Battle of Chickamauga , Battle of Fort Stevens ; division commander in the Army of the Ohio ; commander of the I Corps and XX Corps ; commander of Fort Leavenworth and the United States Army Command and General Staff College ; brother of Brigadier General Robert Latimer McCook , Brigadier General Daniel McCook, Jr. , and Major General and Dakota Territory Governor Edwin Stanton McCook ; McCook Field was named for him and his family who were known as the "Fighting McCooks "
[b] [ 117]
Henry Warner Slocum
1852
Major General ; Seminole Wars ; First Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Gaines' Mill , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Franklin-Nashville Campaign , Sherman's March to the Sea , Battle of Averasborough , Battle of Bentonville ; brigade commander in the I Corps ; division commander in the VI Corps ; commander of the XII Corps and XX Corps ; U.S. Representative from New York ; Fort Slocum was named for him; the steamship PS General Slocum was named for him
[b] [ 118]
David S. Stanley
1852
Major General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions organizing a counterattack at the Second Battle of Franklin , commander of the IV Corps
[b] [ 103] [ 119]
James B. McPherson
1853
Major General ; Battle of Fort Henry , Battle of Fort Donelson , Battle of Shiloh , Siege of Vicksburg , Battle of Marietta , killed during the Battle of Atlanta ; commander of the XVII Corps ; Fort McPherson was named for him; the Fort McPherson National Cemetery is named for him
[b] [ 120]
John Schofield
1853
Lieutenant General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions leading an attack at the Battle of Wilson's Creek , Atlanta Campaign , Battle of Franklin , Battle of Nashville , Battle of Wyse Fork ; commander of the Army of the Frontier , division commander in the XIV Corps ; United States Secretary of War (1868–1869); Superintendent of the Academy (1876–1881); Commanding General of the United States Army (1888–1895); Military Governor of Virginia
[b] [ 121]
Philip Sheridan
1853
General ; Chattanooga Campaign , Overland Campaign , Valley Campaigns of 1864 , used scorched earth tactics in the Shenandoah Valley and forced Lee's surrender in the Appomattox Campaign; American Indian Wars
[b] [ 122]
Joshua W. Sill
1853
Major General ; killed at the Battle of Stones River ; brigade commander in the Army of the Ohio and Army of the Cumberland ; Fort Sill is named for him
[b]
William Sooy Smith
1853
Brigadier General ; colonel , 13th Ohio Infantry ; promoted brigadier general for services at the Battle of Shiloh ; Battle of Perryville , Vicksburg Campaign , Battle of Okolona ; brigade and division commander in the Army of the Ohio ; cavalry division commander in the Army of the Tennessee ; chief of cavalry, Department of Tennessee and Military Division of Mississippi; resigned 15 July 1864 citing health reasons
[b] [ 123]
William R. Terrill
1853
Brigadier General ; Bleeding Kansas ; Battle of Shiloh , killed at the Battle of Perryville ; brigade commander in the Army of the Ohio
[b] [ 124]
Zenas Bliss
1854
Major General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Fredericksburg ; formed the first unit of Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts
[b] [ 81] [ 125]
Oliver O. Howard
1854
Major General ; Indian Wars ; First Battle of Bull Run , recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions leading an attack at the Battle of Seven Pines despite a wound which resulted in the loss of his right arm, Battle of Antietam , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Chattanooga Campaign , Atlanta Campaign , Sherman's March to the Sea ; brigade commander in the II Corps ; commander of the II Corps, IV Corps , and XI Corps ; Superintendent of the United States Military Academy ; founder of Howard University ; led the campaign against Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce tribe
[b] [ 126]
Thomas H. Ruger
1854
Major General ; Battle of Antietam , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of Frankin ; brigade commander in the XII Corps and XX Corps ; division commander in the XII Corps; Military Governor of Georgia
[b] [ 127]
Stephen H. Weed
1854
Brigadier General ; Third Seminole War ; Bleeding Kansas ; Utah War ; Battle of Antietam , killed defending Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg
[b] [ 128]
William W. Averell
1855
Major General ; First Battle of Bull Run , Peninsula Campaign , Seven Days Battles , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Kelly's Ford , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Droop Mountain , Battle of Rutherford's Farm , Battle of Cove Mountain , Battle of Fisher's Hill ; brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac ; U.S. Consul General in British North America
[b] [ 129]
David McMurtrie Gregg
1855
Major General ; Seven Days Battles , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of Yellow Tavern , Battle of Haw's Shop , Battle of Trevilian Station , Battle of Saint Mary's Church , Valley Campaigns of 1864 , Siege of Petersburg , Second Battle of Deep Bottom , Second Battle of Ream's Station , Battle of Peebles' Farm ; grandson of U.S. Senator Andrew Gregg ; cousin of U.S. Representative Andrew Gregg Curtin
[b] [ 130]
William Babcock Hazen
1855
Major General ; Indian Wars ; Battle of Perryville , Battle of Stones River , Tullahoma Campaign , Battle of Chickamauga , Chattanooga Campaign , Atlanta Campaign , Sherman's March to the Sea , Carolinas Campaign , Battle of Pickett's Mill ; brigade commander in the Army of the Ohio and the XIV Corps ; division commander in the XV Corps ; Hazen Bay in Alaska is named for him
[b] [ 131]
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
1855
Major General ; wounded in the Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of Tom's Brook
[b] [ 132]
Alexander S. Webb
1855
Major General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg for personal bravery and leadership repulsing Pickett's Charge ; president of the City College of New York (1869–1902)
[b] [ 103] [ 133]
Godfrey Weitzel
1855
Major General ; Siege of Port Hudson , First Battle of Fort Fisher ; division commander in the XIX Corps ; commander of the XVIII Corps and XXV Corps
[b] [ 134]
George Dashiell Bayard
1856
Brigadier General ; Indian Wars ; Battle of Port Republic , Battle of Cedar Mountain , killed during the Battle of Fredericksburg ; cavalry commander in the Army of the Potomac ; Fort Bayard was named for him; the Fort Bayard Historic District in Santa Clara, New Mexico , is named for him
[b] [ 135]
James W. Forsyth
1856
Major General ; Indian Wars ; Jackson's Valley Campaign , Peninsula Campaign , Battle of Antietam , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Chickamauga , Overland Campaign , Appomattox Campaign, Battle of Cedar Creek , Battle of Five Forks ; son-in-law of U.S. Postmaster General William Dennison, Jr. ; Forsyth, Montana , is named for him
[b] [ 136]
William P. Sanders
1856
Brigadier General ; Peninsula Campaign , Battle of Antietam
[b] [ 137]
Henry Martyn Robert
1857
Brigadier General ; Pig War ; Chief of Engineers (1901); author of Robert's Rules of Order
[b] [ 138]
George Crockett Strong
1857
Major General ; First Battle of Bull Run , mortally wounded during the assault on Fort Wagner
[b] [ 139]
Abraham Arnold
1859
Brigadier General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for leading a cavalry charge against superior forces
[b] [ 81] [ 140]
Wesley Merritt
1860
Brigadier General ; Spanish–American War ; Battle of Chancellorsville , wounded at the Battle of Brandy Station , Battle of Upperville , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of Yellow Tavern , Battle of Opequon , Battle of Five Forks ; brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac ; division commander in the Army of the Potomac; Superintendent of the United States Military Academy ; Military Governor of the Philippines
[b] [ 141]
Horace Porter
1860
Brigadier General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Chickamauga ; United States Ambassador to France (1897–1905)
[b] [ 142] [ 103]
James M. Warner
1860
Brigadier General ; Battle of Spotsylvania Court House , Third Battle of Winchester , Battle of Fisher's Hill , Battle of Cedar Creek ; commander of the 11th Vermont Infantry , brigade commander in the XXII Corps and VI Corps
[b] [ 143]
James H. Wilson
1860
Major General ; Spanish–American War , Boxer Rebellion ; Battle of Fort Pulaski , Battle of South Mountain , Battle of Antietam , Vicksburg Campaign , Chattanooga Campaign , Overland Campaign , Valley Campaigns of 1864 , Battle of Franklin , Battle of Nashville ; commander of Wilson's Raid
[b] [ 144]
John Moulder Wilson
1860
Brigadier General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Malvern Hill despite acute illness; Superintendent of the Academy (1889–1893); Chief of Engineers (1897–1901)
[b] [ 103] [ 145]
Adelbert Ames
1861 (May)
Major General ; Spanish–American War ; Battle of Yorktown , Battle of Gaines's Mill , Battle of Malvern Hill , Maryland Campaign , Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Gettysburg , Bermuda Hundred Campaign , Siege of Petersburg , Second Battle of Fort Fisher ; commander of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; brigade commander in the XI Corps ; recipient of the Medal of Honor ; United States Senator from Mississippi (1870–1874); Governor of Mississippi (1868–1870, 1874–1876); son-in-law of U.S. Representative and Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler ; father of U.S. Representative Butler Ames
[b] [ 146]
Orville E. Babcock
1861 (May)
Brigadier General ; Battle of Vicksburg , Battle of Blue Springs , Battle of Campbell's Station , Knoxville Campaign , Battle of the Wilderness , Battle of Spotsylvania Court House , Battle of Cold Harbor
[b] [ 147]
John W. Barlow
1861 (May)
Brigadier General ; Indian Wars ; Peninsula Campaign , Battle of Gettysburg , Atlanta Campaign ; Chief of Engineers; Barlow Peak in Yellowstone National Park is named for him
[ 148]
Charles E. Hazlett
1861 (May)
1st Lieutenant , Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery ; Battery D, 4th U.S. Artillery (Antietam Campaign ); killed in action at the Battle of Gettysburg , July 2, 1863
[ 149]
Guy Vernor Henry
1861 (May)
Brigadier General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions repulsing an enemy attack at the Battle of Cold Harbor ; son Major General Guy Vernor Henry Jr. is an Academy alumnus, class of 1894; Governor of Puerto Rico (1898–1899)
[b] [ 81] [ 150]
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
1861 (May)
Major General ; the first Union officer to be wounded during the Civil War at the Battle of Big Bethel , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Aldie , Battle of Upperville , Battle of Gettysburg , Overland Campaign , wounded at the Battle of Resaca , Sherman's March to the Sea , Battle of Monroe's Crossroads ; brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac ; division commander of the Army of the Cumberland and the Military Division of the Mississippi ; U.S. Minister to Chile
[b] [ 151]
Emory Upton
1861 (May)
Major General ; Battle of Fredericksburg , Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ; excelled at infantry, artillery, and cavalry; influential military theorist and reformer of United States Army organization and methods
[b] [ 152]
George Armstrong Custer
1861 (June)
Major General ; Battle of Antietam , Battle of Chancellorsville , leader of a charge at the Battle of Gettysburg that broke the back of the Confederate resistance; Battle of the Wilderness , Siege of Petersburg ; Battle of the Washita , killed in action at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
[b] [ 153]
Ranald S. Mackenzie
1862
Major General ; Indian Wars ; wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Antietam , wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg , Overland Campaign , Siege of Petersburg , Battle of Fort Stevens , wounded at the Third Battle of Winchester , wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek , Battle of Five Forks , Battle of Appomattox Court House , Valley Campaigns of 1864 ; brigade commander in the VI Corps and the Army of the James ; nephew of U.S. Senator John Slidell and Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry
[b] [ 154]
George Lewis Gillespie, Jr.
1862
Brigadier General ; recipient of the Medal of Honor for carrying dispatches under withering fire at the Battle of Cold Harbor ; Chief of Engineers (1901–1904)
[b] [ 81] [ 145]
Joseph Horace Eaton (1835)
George Meade (1835)
William Tecumseh Sherman (1840)
Ulysses S. Grant (1843)
Winfield Scott Hancock (1844)
George McClellan (1846)
George Crook (1852)
John Schofield (1853)
Philip Sheridan (1853)
Oliver Howard (1854)
Alexander Webb (1855)
Adelbert Ames (1861)
George Armstrong Custer (1861)