From the Richmond Enquirer, 5/3/1861, p. 1, c. 7
Below will be found a correct list of the
Southern Cadets who left the Military
Academy at West Point, New York, last
week, and have safely reached Virginia. A large party of them have arrived here.
They all propose to enter the military service, and have high ambition to
render the most effective aid in the struggle for Southern Independence. Those
from Virginia will apply for commissions in the regular army now to be raised
for the State’s quota of troops, and will be transferred to the army of the
Confederate States when Virginia is fully admitted into the Southern
Confederacy, with same relative rank as if they were admitted now to the Army of
the South.
They came by way of Harrisburg, Pittsburg,
Wheeling, Harper’s Ferry, from the Point of Rocks by wagon to Leesburg,
Va., and thence by
Manassa[sic] gap Railroad to Alexandria; and were nearly five days on the route
from New York city to this city.
WEST POINT CADETS RESIGNED
1st Class – John Pelham, from
Ala.; Geo. A. Thornton,
Va.; Thos. L. Rosser,
Texas.
2d Class – William R. Jones,
Va. Paul F. Faison, N. C.; R.
H. Logan, Va.; Z. T. Willet, Tenn.; Wm. F. Niemeyer, Va.; A. D. Moore, N. C.; D.
G. White, Md.; Wm. H. Browne, Va.
3d Class – George S. Lovejoy, N. C.; James
Dearing, Va.; Geo. W. Clayton, N. C.; H. D. Twyman, Va.; E. M’E. Ross,
Tenn.
4th Class – Rice E. Graves,
Ky.; J. B. Washington,
Va.; Wm. E. Gibson, Va.; C.
H. Conner, Tenn.; R. S. Kinney, Va.; R. B. Cowan, N. C.
WHO REFUSED TO TAKE THE PRESCRIBED OATH, AND
RESIGNED.
5th Class – Wm. Waller,
Va.; Thos. P. Turner,
Va.; E. W. B. Anderson, Fla.;
Frank J. Masi, Va.; B. A. Terrett, La.; J. E. Murray, Ark.; James M. Fetter,
Ky.; James W. Dale, Del.; Jas. A. Craige, N. C.; Lewis E. Woods, La.
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