He graduated last in his class
He graduated last in his class
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith was a graduate of West Point's class of 1845. He ranked 26th in his class.
Union General James Birdseye McPherson graduated from the West Point in 1853. He was ranked first in his class of 52 graduates.
Major General William Starke Rosencrans graduated in the West Point class of 1842. He ranked fifth in his graduating class.
Confederate General George Edward Pickett graduated with the West point class of 1846. He ranked last in his class of 59 students.
Confederate General John C. Pemberton graduated from West point in the class of 1837. He ranked 27th in a class of 50 graduates.
Union General Issac Ingalls Stevens graduated from West Point in 1839. Among the graduating class of 31, General Stevens ranked first. General Stevens was killed at the Battle of Chantilly in 1862.
Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside was part of the West Point class of 1847. He was ranked 18th in his class of 38 graduates.
Robert E Lee was second in his West Point class in 1829.
Union General Henry Washington Benham graduated from West Point in 1837. He was ranked first in a graduating class of 50 cadets. Benham was a great engineer and worked in that capacity in the Army of the Potomac.
General George B. McClellan ranked number two in his class at West Point when he graduated.
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman graduated 6th of 42 in the West Point Class of 1840. He would become a lynchpin for the Union's success in the Western Theater of the US Civil War.