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...when the Mexican War broke out, about thirteen hundred men had graduated from the Academy, many of whom rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats...
...School--C. D. Davol '06, R. E. Sperry '06. J. L. White '06, S. K. Becker '06, D. D. Field '07, W. Goodwin '07, W. T. Harrisen '07, A. S. Locke '07, J. M. Morse '07. J. Reynolds '07. G. T. Sugden '07: from the Graduate School--J. H. McCellan 2G.: from the Divinity School--F. R. Sturtevant 2Dv.: from the Law School--C. H. Derby 2L., H. R. Wilson 2L., D. C. Manning 2L., S. B. Larrabee 2L., W. B. Flint 1L., A. L. Thayer...
...McCellan, b. Markoe...
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