Newton was born 24 August 1823 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was appointed to West Point in 1838 and graduated 2nd in the class of 1842.

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Cooper was born 1 November 1815 most source believe in Amite County, Mississippi where his father was a physician and Baptist preacher.

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Marcy was born 9 April 1812 in Greenwich, Massachusetts. He entered West Point on 1 July 1828 and graduated 29th in the class of 1832.

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Carroll was born in 1810 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was the son of William Carroll, a general during the War of 1812 and the governor of Tennessee from 1821 until 1827 and again from 1829 until 1835.

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Soule was born 31 August 1801 Castillon-en-Couserans near Bordeaux, France. He attended the Jesuit College at Toulouse, France then an academy in Bordeaux.

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Gordon was born 5 October 1836 in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee. His youth was spent in rural Mississippi and Texas where he obtained his early education.

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McRae was born 10 October 1829 in Baldwin County, Alabama. He was educated on the family’s plantation by a private tutor then attended the University of South Carolina from which he graduated in 1849.

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Jones was born 3 January 1828 in Utica, New York. When he was young his family moved to Leicester, Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools. In 1856 he invented a kerosene lamp

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