Download The West Point Class of 1846: The Cadets and History of the Academy's Most Famous Class AudioBook Free
- Profiles the class of 1846's most well-known cadets, including George McClellan, Stonewall Jackson, George Pickett, A. P. Hill, yet others.
- Discusses the romantic relationships between the cadets and their lives after and during Western Point.
"Toiling uphill is not what it is cracked up to be!" (Cadet George B. McClellan) Western Point is definitely America's most well-known military academy, but in the early 19th century it was a highly unimpressive school consisting of a few unsightly structures facing a desolate, barren parade ground. Proven with just five officers and 10 cadets of the Corps of Technical engineers on March 16, 1802, the academy was built on an area just 50 miles north of New York City, which have been a key Hudson River armed service fortress during the Revolutionary Warfare. Cadets attending during the Point's first several decades were obliged to keep up their daily program knowing the institution might shut down at at any time, as the US government frequently questioned why it will provide free education. Since it turned out, Western Point would end up being the foremost armed service academy in the country, and it could turn out the cadets who became the most crucial generals in the Civil Warfare. The future generals' years at Western Point became a source of both camaraderie and brilliant experiences. A clerical problem by Western Point administrators ensured that Hiram Ulysses Offer permanently became known as Ulysses S. Offer; and years after Robert E. Lee fulfilled Albert Sidney Johnston and Jefferson Davis at Western Point, George H. Thomas and William Tecumseh Sherman fulfilled one another - and Richard S. Ewell. During the 1850s classes included men like John Bell Hood, Union basic Phil Sheridan, and Wayne Birdseye McPherson, who end up being the only commanding basic of any Union army to perish in a Civil Warfare battle.
