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Graduates of Military Academy at West Point. 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 grad- uates 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.

68 1. Born Tennessee. Appointed Tennessee. 20.

Colonel, July 31, 1862. Commanding Sixty-third Tennessee In- fantry, B. R. Johnson's Division. In 1863 was in Preston's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Tennessee; in 1864 in Brigadier-Gen- 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 i, 1861. Commanding Fifty-fifth Virginia Infantry; in 1862 Captain and A. A. G. to Brigadier-Gen- eral J. J. Archer.