Class of 1805–1835 | Class of 1836–1852 | Class of 1852–1981 | Class of 1884–1936
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Thomas Lincoln Casey (1831–1896)
CLASS OF 1852
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HIGHLIGHT: Washington Monument under construction
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Engineering: Career engineer officer | Redesigned and completed the Washington
Monument | Oversaw such major building projects as the State, War, and Navy Building (now the Eisenhower
Executive Office Building), and the Library of Congress.
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Oliver Otis Howard (1830–1909)
CLASS OF 1854
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HIGHLIGHT: Freemen voting
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Well connected politically, he rose rapidly to corps command, despite losing
his right arm in an 1862 battle. Other: After graduation returned to West Point to
teach math, a tour of duty cut short by war | Strong religious, civil rights, and temperance
views led to his choice as head of the new Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865 | Real concern for
Negro education made him active in founding Howard University | Spending the 1870s in
several western Indian campaigns, Howard became West Point superintendent in 1881. Family:
Married Elizabeth Ann Waite in 1856. The couple had two children.
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George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876)
CLASS OF 1861
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HIGHLIGHT: Custer’s Last Fight
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Aggressive soldier with distinguished Civil War service | Led himself and many of his troops
to death at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Family: Married Elizabeth (“Libbie”)
Bacon. As his widow, Libbie Custer devoted herself to embellishing the legend of Custer as a great
military hero.
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Ranald Slidell Mackenzie (1802–1871)
CLASS OF 1862
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HIGHLIGHT: Black troops
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Considered “most promising young officer” by Grant | Led the 41st
(later 24th) Infantry, a black regiment, to solid record of accomplishment.
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Thomas Murray Tolman (1841–1883)
CLASS OF 1865
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HIGHLIGHT: Army post at Sulphur Springs, Texas
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Assigned to frontier duty with the 6th Cavalry in Texas, he rose to the rank of captain
before reaching Sulphur Springs in April 1869 | Formed a special thirty-man unit, “Tolman’s
Thirty,” to enforce federal law and suppress disorder within the small town of Sulphur Springs
and surrounding Hopkins County | Tolman’s Thirty provoked complaints and may have skirted the law.
Before the end of the year, Tolman was suspended from command, charged with mistreating a prisoner |
After a year’s confinement within Fort Jefferson, he returned to active duty and left Texas.
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Fayette Washington Roe (1850–1916)
CLASS OF 1871
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HIGHLIGHT: Frances M. A. Roe
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Unremarkable military career, clerical
and administrative posts. Family: Married
Frances Mack. Frances Roe wrote Army Letters
from an Officer’s Wife (1909) a detailed
description of life in the frontier army.
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Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934)
CLASS OF 1876
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HIGHLIGHT: Hugh Lenox Scott portrait
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Served in frontier cavalry | Military governor of the Philippines | US Army
chief of staff in 1914. Other: Wrote definitive treatise on sign language of the
Plains Indians.
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William Crozier (1855–1942)
CLASS OF 1876
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HIGHLIGHT: 75-mm shell
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Worked to improve coast artillery and became chief of ordnance | Vital role in
conversion of factories for ordnance production in World War I. Other: Taught
mathematics at West Point | Elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
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Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940)
CLASS OF 1877
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HIGHLIGHT: Portrait, Henry O. Flipper
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Exploration: Prospered through surveying and land speculation in Texas and Mexican
land. Other: First black graduate of West Point, dismissed from the army for “conduct
unbecoming an officer” | Exonerated by presidential pardon.
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George Washington Goethals (1858–1928)
CLASS OF 1880
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HIGHLIGHT: Culebra Cut
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Engineering: Chief engineer of the Panama Canal project | Built the Canal ahead of schedule |
Returned from retirement to become acting quartermaster general during World War I | Successful
engineering consultant after second retirement.
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Henry Granville Sharpe (1858–1947)
CLASS OF 1880
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HIGHLIGHT: Quartermaster items
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Supported establishment of modern Quartermaster Corps | Appointed quartermaster general of
the army, supervised buildup for World War I. Other: Efficient organizer of Commissary Corps efforts in Spanish-American War and after
| Improved soldier’s rations.
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Andrew Summers Rowan (1857–1943)
CLASS OF 1881
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HIGHLIGHT: Two pamphlets, Message to Garcia
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Other: Dispatched on a secret mission to Cuba in 1898 to obtain information on rebel forces |
Returned in eleven days with the information | 40 million copies of pamphlet Message to
Garcia became a guide on getting the job done.
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Enoch Herbert Crowder (1859–1932)
CLASS OF 1881
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HIGHLIGHT: The Draft
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
War: Helped draft and implement 1917 Selective Service Act. Other: Studied for
law degree after West Point, later army gudge advocate general.
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Class of 1805–1835 | Class of 1836–1852 | Class of 1852–1981 | Class of 1884–1936
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