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First Ed. Civil War Related West Point US Military Academy 1861 Class Album - First Edition of West Point Civil War Book entitled THEY LIE FORGOTTEN: THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY 1856 - 1861 TOGETHER WITH A CLASS ALBUM FOR THE CLASS OF MAY, 1861 by Mary Elizabeth Sergent | Published by Prior King Press, Middletown, New York (1986) | Well Illustrated; 200 pages | Notes: The story of the West Point U.S. Military Academy's Class of 1861. The class included 52 graduates, who went on to become 41 Union Officers, 11 Confederate Officers, 15 Generals, and 5 recipients of Congressional Medals of Honor. Two classes graduated from West Point in 1861 because of Lincoln's need of lieutenants: forty-five cadets in Ames's class in May and thirty-four in Custer's class in June. The cadets range from Henry Algernon du Pont, first in the class of May, whose ancestral home is now Winterthur Garden, to Custer, last in the class of June. During the Civil War, they suffered a casualty rate of 65%. Among the graduates were Gen. George A. Custer, Gen. Adelbert C. Ames,