The history of the Founder's Day observance is more obscure, though often attributed to the period after the Civil War when West Point graduates from both sides met several times to re-kindle old ...

Go-aheadativeness.” That was the characterization offered by the Hannibal Daily Messenger in November 1859, for Maj. Thomas A ...

Delity, a history buff, went to West Point, to serve his country ... his military heritage included family that served in the Civil War and Revolutionary War.

Yet Longstreet remained a prominent national figure after the war. In 1880, the West Point graduate and prosperous businessman was named U.S. minister to Turkey.

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point graduate who joined ... the rest would be killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was ...