Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. 1886
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OFFICIAL REGISTER OF THE ~nit11 OF THE U. S. MILITARY ACADEMY, ~øint 9 ~t. ~. JUN~1, leso. BOARD OF VISITORS. JUNE, 1886. Appointed by the President of the United States. 1. General FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS (President) NEw ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. 2. General GEORGE B. COSBY (Secretary) SACRAMENTo, CALIFoRNIA. 3. Hon. KEMP P. BATTLE, LL.D CHAPEL HILL, N. C. 4. Mr. WILSON S. BISSELL UFFALO, NEw Yonn. 5. General WILLIAM H. BLAIR BELLEF0NTE, PENN. 6. Professor W. G. SUMNER N~wIIAvEN,C0ENIIcTICUT. 7. Colonel THOMAS C. McCORVEY TUSCALoosA, ALABAMA. Appointed by the President of the Senate. 8. Hon. CHARLES F. MANDERSON OMAHA, NEBRASKA. 9. Hon. RANDALL L. GIBSON - NEw ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Appointed by the Speaker of the Honse of Representatives. 10. lIon. EDWARD S. BRAGG - F0ND-DU-LAC, WISCONSIN. 11. lIon. JAMES LAIRD HAsTINGS, NEBRASKA. 12. Hon. EGBERT L. VIELE NEW YORK, NEW YORK. 1886 3 OFFICERS OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, N. Y. ~upettntenbent. Brevet Major-General WESLEY MERRITT, U. S. A., Colonel 5th Cavalry. ~~ttlitartj ~taf15 1st Lieutenant WILLIAM C. BROWN, 1st Cavalry, Adjutant. Captain WILLIAM F. SPURGIN, 21st Infantry, Treasurer and Quartermaster and Commissary of Cadets. Captain HENRY G. SHARPE, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. A., Post Corn. missas-y of Subsistence, and Post Treasurer. Captain CHARLES H. ROCKWELL, 5th Cavalry. Quartermaster of the Military Academy, Post Quartermaster, anti Officer of Police. - Lieutenant Colonel ANDREW K. SMITH, Surgeon, U. S. A., Post Surgeon. Captain JAMES P. KIMBALL, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. 1886 2~tabemh~~tcr1~ Professors whose service at the Academy, as Professor, exceeds 10 years have the assimilated rank of Colonel, and all other Professors the assimilated rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. DE PARTMENT OF NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. Peter S. Michie, Professor. (14 Feb., 1871.) *1st Lieutenant ARTHUR Ml~l~hllery, Assistant Professor. 1st Lieutenant WILLIAM B. GoRDoN, Ordnance Department, i ctor 1st Lieutenant SIDNEY E. STUART, ~ 5~ Ordnance Department, - 1st Lieutenant WALLACE Mo’rT, In Charge of Observatory and Asiro- 8th Infantry, nomical Observations. DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES. George L. Andrews, Professor. (28 Feb., 1871.) 1st Lieutenant ALEXANDER RoDGERs, Assistant Professor of the Spanish Lan’ 4th Cavalry, 5 gsiage. 1st Lieutenant EUGENE A. ELLIs, 5. Assistant Professor of the French Lan- 8th Cavalry, ~ guage. 1st Lieutenant WILLIAM A. SIMPSoN, 2d Artillery, 1st Lieutenant JoHN R. ToTTER, 4th Artillery, 2d Lieutenant CARVER HOW~thN~fantry,~Instructors. 2d Lieutenant J. F. REYNOLDS LANDIS, 1st Cavalry, 2d Lieutenant FREDERICK S. F0LTz, 1st Cavalry, J DEPARTMENT OF DRAWING. Charles W. Lamed, Professor. (25 July, 1876.) 1st Lieutenant HENRY A. RirdDkrtillery, ~Assistant Professor. 1st Lieutenant WILLIAM D. BEACH, 3rd Cavalry, In ctors 2d Lieutenant CLARENCE P. T0wN5LEY, ~ 4th Artillery, 5To be relieved from duty atthe Military Academy, Aug. 28, 1886. 188s3 5 DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS. Edgar W. Bass, Professor. (17 April, 1878.) 1st Lieutenant WRIGHT P. EDGERT0N, 2d Artillery, Assistant Professor. 1st Lieutenant GEORGE L. ANDERsON, 4th Artillery, 1st Lieutenant GEORGE H. G GALE, I 4th Cavalry, 1st Lieutenant FREDERICK W00LEY, 10th Infantry, ~rnstructors. 2d Lieutenant EDOLUND D. SMITH, - 19th Infantry, 2d Lieutenant WILLIAM W. GIBSON, 3d Artillery, I 2d Lieutenant WALTE1I S. ALExAND1IE, 4th Artillery, J DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, AND GEOLOGY. Samuel E. Tiliman, Professor. (21 Dec., 1880.) *1st Lieutenant WALTER S. WYATT, 9th Infantry, Assistant Ps’ofessor. *1st Lieutenant THOMAS C. PATTERsoN, 1st Am’tillery, 2d Lieutenant FRANKS. HARL0w, 1st Artillery, instructors. 2d Lieutenant JOHN L. CHAMBERLIN, } 1st Artillery, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND ETHICS. William M. Postlethwaite, Chaplain, Professor. (21 Dec., 1881.) 1st Lieutenant GEORGE B. DAVIs, 5th Cavalry, Assistant Professor. 2d Lieutenant WILLIAM P. EVANS, 19thInfantry, ~1nstructos’. DEPARTMENT OF TACTICS. Lieut. Col. Henry C. Hasbrouck, Commandant of Cadets and In-. Captain 4th Artillery, j~structor of Tactics. (22 Aug. ‘82.) Captain JACOB A. AUGUR, - I Senior Assistant Instructor of Cavalry 5th Cavalry, ~ Tactics. *To be relieved fromduty atthe Military Academy, Aug. 28, 1886. 6 1886 1st Lieutenant WILLIAM B. HoMER, 1 Senior Assistant Instructor of Artillery 5th Artillery, Tactics. 1st Lieutenant HENRY KIRBY, I Assistant Instructor of Tactics. C’orn- 10th Infantry, ~ neanding Company of Cadets. 1st Lieutenant DAVID PRICE, S Assistant Instructor of Tactics. - dYons- 1st Artillery, 5’ manding Company of (ladets. 1st Lieutenant OSCAR J. BROwN, 1 Assistant Instructor of Tactics. Corn- 1st Cavalry, 5’ mandeseg Cbmpaisy of Cadets. 2d Lieutenant FRANCIS J. A. DARR, 5. Assistant Instructor of Tactics. Corn- 12th Infantry, 5 nsanding Company of Cadets. 1st Lieutenant WILLIAM D. BEACH, 3d Cavalry, 2d Lieutenant JOHN L. CHAMBERlIN, 1st Artillery, } Assistant Instructors of Tactics. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. *Herbert P. Curtis, Professor. (28 Aug., 1852.) Major and Judge Advocate, U. S. A., 5’ (By assigniiicnt under Act of June 6,1875.) 1st Lieutenant GEORGE B. DAVIS, 5th Cavalry, 2d Lieutenant WILLIAM ~. EVANS, Instructoss. 19th infantry, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND MILITARY ENGINEERING. James Mercur, Professor. (29 Sept., 1884.) 1st Lieutenant WALTER L. FISK, Corps of Engineers, Assistant Professor. 1st Lieutenant GUSTAV J. FIEBEGEII, Corps of Engineers, I 1st Lieutenant GEORGE W. G0ETHAL5, 1)estructors - Corps of Engineers, 1stLieutenant JAMES G. WARREN, Corps of Engineers, DEPARTMENT OF ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY. *Major Clifton Comly, Ordnance Department, instructor. 1st Lieutenant LAWRENCE L. BRUFF, Ordnance Department, Assistant Iisstructos’. 2d Lieutenant WILLIAM W. GIBSON, 3d Artillery. } On temporary duty. DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL MILITARY ENGINEERING. Captain Philip M. Price, Corps of Engineers, Instructor. 1st Lieutenant JAMES G. WARREN, Assistant Instructor. Corps of Engineers, Herman J. Koehler, Master of the Sword. *To be relieved from duty at the Military Academy, Aug. 28, 1886. CLASSIFICATION OF CADETS. The Cadets are arranged in four distinct classes, corresponding with the four years of study. The Cadets employed on the first year’s course constitute the FOURTH CLAss; those on the second year’s course the THIRD CLASS; those on the third year’s course the SECOND CLASS; and those on the fourth year’s course the FIRST CLASS. - The academic year commences on the 1st of July. On, or before, that date tile result of the examination held in the preced- ing month is announced and Cadets are advanced from one class to another. At no other time shall a Cadet be advanced from one class to another, unless prevented by sickness, or au- tisorized absence, from attending at the aforesaid examination; in which case a special examination shall be granted him; but in no case shall a Cadet be advanced from one class to another without having passed a satisfactory examination by the Aca- demic Board. N0TE.—Names marked thus * are to be attached to the next Army Register, in conformity with a regulation for the govern- ment of the Military Academy, requiring the names of the most distinguished Gadets, not exceeding five in each class, to be re- ported for this purpose at each -Annual Examination. Cadets whose names are marked thus f were found deficient, and turned back, tojoin the next succeeding class. Cadets whose -names are marked thus ~ were found deficient, and discharged. CADETS ARRANGED IN $i~tkii~Jf *J~ii~flt1~*ii~*~i~4jit~~ AS DETERMINED AT THE ANNUAL EXAMINATION IN JUNE, 1886. 10 1886 FIRST CLASS—77 MEMBERS—GRADUATED JuNE 12, 1886. Order State ~a‘~ - of non-it in u-~ li,,c; — ‘u.~ ~ ~‘;5,3 iVanses. Date of ~~ . a~d~- Admission. ~ ~ ,~~ -~ ~ ~ i~ . ~ ~“ ~u-5 a ‘~‘~ ~ L ~, ~ ~ ~ ~ R~ ~‘1 :7 Newcomer, Henry U Pa. 111. July 1, 18~2 ~ 21 ~l 1• 1 1 2 - 11 1) *2 Patrick, Mason M . W.Va W.Va Sept. 1, “ 18 8 3225 212~ 33 *3Riché Charles S Pa. Pa. July 1, 18 0 4 7 410 8~1 0 *4 Rees, Thomas H Mich. Mich. ‘~ “ 18 9 2694 5:34 142 *5 Potter, CharlesL Me. Me. ‘ “ 18 5 6 41813 4~8’ 18 6Towers,JohnA. S. C. S. C. “ “ 19 8 l1~11 5 9 9 1 0 7Thayer, Arthur Ind. md. Sept. 1, “ 18 7 5191312 18~23 82 8 Hirst, Robert L Pa. Pa, July 1, “ 17 6 1918 317 ‘~ 1 0 9Berry, Liicien G N. Y. N. Y. “ “ 18 7 21~l015361522 80 10 McIntyre, Frank Ala. Ala. Sept. 1, “ 17 8 517 163~ 19 17 68 11 McMahon, John E N. Y. N. V. -‘ “ 21 9 26~ 3 7 ~ 11 4 7 12 Darrow, Walter N. P.... N. V. N. V. “ “ 19 6 16:24 12 11 10 1 0 13 Haines, John T Mo. Atl~argc “ “ 18 5 12~3138 4Y~17 7 16 14 Andrews, Avery D N. V. N. V. July 1, “ 18 3 9162915 6 1 0 15Stewart, Cecil Va. Cal. “ “ 18 3- 721323~1444 200 16 Menoher, Charles T Pa. Pa. “ “ 20 3~l4~27818 12 6 12 17 Reher, Samuel Mo. Mo. “ “ 17 8 13~51416 1349 292 18 Harris, Floyd W W. VaW. Va “ “ 21 0’ 181220 6 16 1 0 19Camp, William H Wis, Wis. “ “ 19 4’ 25~22’108 31 35 157 20 Nance, John T Iii. Ill. Sept. 1, “ 18 3~15~34~4055-2032 131 21 Freeland, Harry Md Md “ “ [9 6’ 10~7~2472 2536 158 22Procter, Robert G Ky. Ky. July 1, “ .30 7~22~13e1739‘47 9 25 23DeShon, George D Mass. Mass. “ “ I711~3115 -~ .36 2 0 24Pettit, Colville M N. V. N. V. Sept. 1, “ 17 Z 23 82331 330 111 25 Niskern, Albert D Ill. Mich. July 1, “ 20 7i 24~2939 35-21 1 0 26Kalk, Frank G Wis. Wis. (a)” 1881 17 2’ 28;14 1929 2238 166 27Walcutt, Charles C., Jr.. Ohio. AtLarge.(b)” “ 20 0’ 29:2831 21 35 1 0 28Bean, William H Pa. Pa. “ 1882 20 11~48:30 11334110 28 29 Baker, David J., Jr Ill. Ill. ‘ “ 17[0, l7~2321452450 327 30 Pershing, John J Mo.