Excerpt from Half Century Record of the Class at West Point 1850 to 1854
The Class of 1850-54 was graduated long enough before the Civil War to cause its members, trained in frequent Indian outbreaks and qualified by experience in the field, to serve in grades entailing special exposure on the line of battle. Many of its members held such rank, and the Official Records show for the Class a larger list of killed and mortally wounded in action than for any other that ever left the Academy except for that graduating in 1841, which lost six graduates in the Mexican War and eight in the Civil War, or a total of fourteen. The Class of 1854 lost twelve graduates and three non-graduates in the Civil War, and among the former was Greble, the first officer of the Regular Army to lay down his life in the conflict. Another non-graduate subsequently met his fate in the Modoc War, making a total of sixteen of the Class to die from wounds received in battle.
It has been charged against the Academy that its cost to the Government is excessive, since the Cadets that fall out by the way are not commissioned in the Army, and consequently can render no return to the Government for the sums expended in their education more or less complete. Of the class entering in 1850, having a total of one hundred and two names on its rolls, forty-six were graduated in 1854 and three in 1855, leaving fifty-three who failed to receive the diploma. It has seemed to me to be a matter of interest to trace, so far as practicable, the war records of these non-graduates, and thus to determine whether their military education received at West Point did or did not bear fruit in the great war.
It has been my habit during all these years to preserve any item which came to my knowledge relating to members of the Class. In this present study I have sought and obtained similar items from my classmates.
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