Official Register Of The Officers And Cadets Of The U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. June, 1858 West Point Americana,Civil War,Education,Military

12mo. 19, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, spine reinforced with cloth tape. Light dusting, Very Good. General George Armstrong Custer is listed among the students of the Fifth Class. He graduated in 1861. Custer was the youngest general of the Union Army during the Civil War, attaining the rank at the age of 23. His classmate and close friend, Thomas L. Rosser, of the Fourth Class, became a Confederate General and captured a number of Custer's men at Trevilian Station. Several other students listed in this register later became Civil War generals: Union - Emory Upton, Ranald S. MacKenzie, Charles Garrison, Martin D. Hardin, Edwin H. Stoughton, James H. Wilson, Wesley Merritt, James M. Warner, Adelbert Ames, Hugh J. Kilpatrick; Confederate - Bryan M. Thomas, Joseph Wheeler, and Stephen D. Ramseur [at age 27]. The course of study is printed.