George Martin
George Washington Curtis Lee entered West Point with the Class of 1854 on July 1, 1850, age 17 years 6 months, he graduated in 1854, 1st in a class of 46 cadets having stood 1st after four years, in all academic departments: Engineering, Ethics, Minerals & Geology, Infantry Tactics, Artillery, and Cavalry Tactics. Classmates included:
#4 Oliver O. Howard; #10 John Pegram; #13 James E. B. Stuart; #17 Stephen D. Lee; & #19 William D. Pender
[Offical Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, June, 1854,
http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/oroc/v1854.pdf]
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1631.. (Born Va.)... .G·. W. CUSiTIS Lee*. .. .(Apcd at Large.)***. ..1
Military History. - Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1850, to July 1, 1854, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to
Bvt. Second Lieut., CORPS OF ENGINEERS, July 1, 1854.
Served : as Asst. Engineer in the construcbtion of Fort Clinch, Amelia Island, Fla., 1854-56, - in building Forts Pulaski and Jackson, Ga., 1856,
Second Lieut., CORPS OF ENGINEERS, March. 3, 1855
- on improvement of Savannah River, Ga. 1856, - in the construction of Fort Clinch, Fla., 1856-57, - and in building the Defenses of Fort Point, entrance to San Francisco Bay, Cal., 1857-59; as Asst. in the En-
(First Lieut., CORPS OF ENGINPEiRS, October 20, 1859)
Engineer Bureau at Washington, D. C., 1859-61; and as Superintending Engineer of the repairs of Ft. Washington, Potomac River, Md., 1861.
RESiGNED, MAY 2, 1861.
Joined in the Rebellion of 1861-66 against the United States.
Civil History. - Professor of Civil and Military. Engineering, Virginia Military Institute, Oct. 1, 1865, to Feb. 1, 1871. President of Washington-Lee University, since Feb. 1, 1871. Degree of LL. D. conferred by Tulane University, La., 1887. Fellow of the Society. of Science, Letters, and Art, London, England, 1888.
* Son of General Robert E. Lee.
*** At Large signifies that he received a Presidential Appointment being the son of a military officer vice appointment from a specific state