Post by jodak on Oct 8, 2015 14:54:12 GMT -6
Yesterday on the Ford D thread I alluded to the USMA class rankings of various of Custer's contemporary officers. I thought that some might be interested in a more detailed look at the rankings of some of the notables of that period, as follows:
Rank
1 McPherson (53), Custis Lee (54), McKenzie (62)
2 R. E. Lee (29), Beauregard (38), McClellan (46), Warren (50)
3 Halleck (39), Porter Alexander (57)
4 Howard (54)
5 Pendleton (30), Meigs (36), Bragg (37), Sherman (40), Rosecrans (42)
6 None of note
7 Rodman (41), Pleasonton (44), Slocum (52), Schofield (53)
8 B. Huger (25), Albert Sydney Johnston (26), Polk (27), Fitz-John Porter (45), Upton (61-1)
9 None of note
10 Peagram (54)
11 Thomas (40), Lyons (41), Buckner (44)
12 Ewell (40)
13 Joseph Johnston (29), Couch (46), Jeb Stuart (54)
14 Ramseur (60)
15 R. Anderson (25), McGruder (30), A.P. Hill (47)
16 Buford (48)
17 Trimble (22), Ord (39), Pope (42), T. [Stonewall] Jackson (46), Kilpatrick (61-1)
18 Early (37), Hancock (44), Burnside (47)
19 Meade (35), Hunt (39), Pender (54), Wheeler (59)
20 Gibbon (47), Marcus Reno (57)
21 Grant (43)
22 Manning Kimmel [Father of Husband] (57), Merritt (60)
23 Jefferson Davis (28), McDowell (38), Bushrod Johnson (40)
24 Sedgwick (37), Doubleday (42)
25 Edmund Kirby Smith (45)
26 Hardee (38), Reynolds (41)
27 Pemberton (37)
28 D. H. Hill (42)
29 Hooker (37), Garnett (41)
30 None of note
31 Haupt (35)
32 Buell (41), Sturgis (46),
33 Bee (45), Stoneman (46)
34 Sheridan (53), Custer (61-2)
35 Granger (45)
36 None of note
37 None of note
38 Heath (47) [last in class], Crook (52)
39 Sykes (42)
40-43 None of note
44 Hood (53)
45 Fitzhugh Lee (56)
46-47 None of note
48 McLaws (42)
49-53 None of note
54 Longstreet (42) [out of 56]
55-56 None of note
57 Maxey (46)
58 Picket (46) [last in class]