VMI Alumni Flag Rank Officers


The following chart lists VMI Alumni who have achieved the rank of General or Admiral.
| VMI Class Year | Name, Last | First | Rank | Organization |
| 1842 | Elliott | Wyatt M. | BG | VA Militia |
| 1843 | Echols | John | BG | CSA |
| 1843 | Fry | Birkett D. | BG | CSA |
| 1844 | Carrington | Edward C. | BG | USA |
| 1844 | Garnett | Thomas S. | BG | CSA |
| 1845 | Walker. | Lindsay R. | BG | CSA |
| 1846 | Colston | R. E. | BG | CSA |
| 1847 | Mahone | William | MG | CSA |
| 1847 | Wharton | Gabriel C. | BG | CSA |
| 1848 | Jones | J. R. | BG | CSA |
| 1848 | Rodes | Robert E. | MG | CSA |
| 1848 | Slaughter | James E. | BG | CSA |
| 1849 | Garland | Samuel | BG | CSA |
| 1849 | Payne | William H. | BG | CSA |
| 1850 | Jones | A. C. | BG | CSA |
| 1850 | Terry | William R. | BG | CSA |
| 1851 | Humes | W. Y. C. | MG | CSA |
| 1851 | Vaughan | A. J. | BG | CSA |
| 1852 | Munford | Thomas T. | BG | CSA |
| 1852 | Walker | James A. | BG | CSA |
| 1854 | Lane | James H. | BG | CSA |
| 1857 | McCausland | John | BG | CSA |
| 1858 | Terrill | James B. | BG | CSA |
| 1868 | James | Fleming W. | MG | Texas Militia |
| 1883 | Michie | R. E. Lee | BG | USA |
| 1888 | Cochran | William B. | BG | USA |
| 1889 | Rockenbach | Samuel D. | BG | USA |
| 1894 | Kilbourne | Charles E. | LTG | USA |
| 1895 | Gignilliat | Leigh R. | BG | USA |
| 1898 | Marshall, Jr. | Richard C. | BG | USA |
| 1899 | Staton | Adolphus | RADM | USN |
| 1901 | Marshall | George C. | General of the Army | USA |
| 1901 | Peyton | Philip B. | MG | USA |
| 1902 | Upshur | William P. | MG | USMC |
| 1904 | LaPrade | William W. | BG | USA |
| 1904 | Weaver | Walter R. | MG | USA |
| 1905 | Devoe | Ralph G. | BG | USA |
| 1906 | Buckner, Jr. | Simon B. | GEN | USA |
| 1906 | Campbell | Arthur G. | BG | USA |
| 1906 | James | Jules | VADM | USN |
| 1906 | Nichols | Robert | BG | USA |
| 1907 | Gill | William H. | MG | USA |
| 1907 | Patton | George S. | GEN | USA |
| 1907 | Wen | Ying H. | LTG | Chinese Army |
| 1908 | Byrd, Jr. | Richard E. | RADM | USN |
| 1908 | Dunbar | Richard B. | MG | NG, TX |
| 1908 | Pendleton | Randolph T. | BG | USA |
| 1909 | Alexander | George M. | BG | USA |
| 1909 | Brett | George H. | LTG | USA |
| 1909 | Christian | Thomas J. | BG | USA |
| 1909 | King, Jr. | Ogden D. | RADM | USN |
| 1909 | Magruder | John | BG | USA |
| 1909 | Read | Oliver M. | VADM | USN |
| 1909 | Walker | Walton H. | GEN | USA |
| 1910 | Akin | Spencer B. | MG | USA |
| 1910 | Brown | Charles C. | BG | USA |
| 1911 | Biedler | Paul M. | BG | USA |
| 1911 | Blackmore | Philip G. | BG | USA |
| 1911 | English | Paul X. | BG | USA |
| 1911 | Gerow | Leonard T. | GEN | USA |
| 1912 | Dalton | Joseph N. | MG | USA |
| 1912 | Goodman | William M. | MG | USA |
| 1912 | Harrill | William K. | VADM | USN |
| 1912 | Howard | Samuel L. | MG | USMC |
| 1912 | Kibler | A. Franklin | MG | USA |
| 1913 | Gerow | Lee S. | BG | USA |
| 1913 | Kingman | Matthew H. | BG | USMC |
| 1914 | Burress | Withers A. | LTG | USA |
| 1914 | Clement | William T. | LTG | USMC |
| 1914 | Conquest | Edwin P. | BG | NG, VA |
| 1914 | Handy | Thomas T. | GEN | USA |
| 1914 | Lowry, Jr. | Sumter T. | MG | USA |
| 1914 | Thompson | Ernest O. | LTG | NG, TX |
| 1915 | Almond | Edward M. | LTG | USA |
| 1915 | Arms | Thomas S. | BG | USA |
| 1915 | Coupland | Richard C. | MG | USA |
| 1915 | Griffin | Raphael | BG | USMC |
| 1915 | Marshall | Richard J. | MG | USA |
| 1915 | McKee | John L. | MG | USA |
| 1915 | Tobin | Robert G. | RADM | USN |
| 1916 | Bradford | William B. | MG | USA |
| 1916 | Colbern | William H. | MG | USA |
| 1916 | Drewry | Guy H. | BG | USA |
| 1916 | Hartt, Jr. | William H. | RADM | USN |
| 1916 | Holmes, Jr. | Henry B. | BG | USA |
| 1917 | Bucher | Oliver B. | BG | USA |
| 1917 | Campbell | William R. | BG | USA |
| 1917 | Cumming | Samuel C. | BG | USMC |
| 1917 | Holt, Jr. | Henry W. | BG | USA |
| 1917 | Martin | Clarence A. | MG | USA |
| 1917 | Ruffner | David L. | BG. | USA |
| 1917 | Shepherd | Lemuel C. | GEN | USMC |
| 1917 | Squire | John W. | MG | NG, VA |
| 1918 | Colburn | Albert E. | BG | USA |
| 1918 | Conrad | G. Bryan | BG | USA |
| 1918 | Cruzen | Richard H. | VADM | USN |
| 1918 | Cutler | Stuart | BG | USA |
| 1918 | Taylor | James | BG | USA |
| 1919 | Higgins | John D. | MG | USA |
| 1920 | Bryan, Jr. | Blackshear M. | BG | USA |
| 1920 | Chung | DeSenn | MG | Chinese AF |
| 1920 | Cox | Edwin | BG | NG, VA |
| 1920 | Keerans, Jr. | Charles L. | BG | USA |
| 1920 | Morrison | H. Terry | BG | USAF |
| 1920 | Wylie | Robert H. | BG | USA |
| 1921 | Cosby, Jr. | George H. | BG | USA |
| 1921 | Davis | James K. | RADM | USN |
| 1921 | Lee | Robert V. | MG | USA |
| 1921 | Pate | Randolph Mc. | GEN | USMC |
| 1921 | Puller | Lewis B. | LTG | USMC |
| 1921 | Stokes, Jr. | William M. | MG | USA |
| 1921 | Waters | William E. | MG | USA |
| 1922 | Bromley, Jr. | Charles V. | MG | USA |
| 1922 | Grombach | John V. | BG | NG, NY |
| 1922 | Johnson | Douglas V. | MG | USA |
| 1922 | Myers | Charles T. | LTG | USAF |
| 1923 | Chappell | Clarence J. | BG | USMC |
| 1923 | Copenhaver | John R. | BG | USA |
| 1923 | Franklin, Jr. | Albert G. | BG | USA |
| 1923 | Phelan | George R. | ADM | USN |
| 1924 | Ferguson | Edwin C. | BG | USMC |
| 1924 | Hart | John N. | MG | USMC |
| 1924 | Letcher | John S. | BG | USMC |
| 1924 | Marshall | St. Julien R. | BG | USMC |
| 1924 | Ruffner | Clark L. | GEN | USA |
| 1925 | Anthony | James C. | BG | USA |
| 1925 | Freeman | Calvin R. | BG | USMC |
| 1925 | Tseng | Hsi Kuei | MG | Chinese Army |
| 1926 | Barkley | N. Buckner | BG | USA |
| 1926 | Colby | Joseph M. | BG | USA |
| 1927 | Li-Jen | Sun | GEN | Chinese Nationalist Army |
| 1929 | Cooper, Jr. | John P. | MG | NG, MD |
| 1929 | Seay | George C. | RADM | USN |
| 1930 | Harris, Jr. | Hunter | MG | USAF |
| 1930 | Johnson, Jr. | Clarence B. | BG | NG, TN |
| 1931 | Harris | William A. | BG | USA |
| 1931 | McEwen | John A. | BG | USA |
| 1931 | Richardson | John W. | BG | USAF |
| 1931 | Shell | George R. E. | BG | USMC |
| 1931 | Wise, Jr. | Henry A. | BG | USA |
| 1932 | Martin, IV | James G. | BG | USA |
| 1932 | Tyson | Robert N. | BG | USA |
| 1933 | McCarthy | Frank J. | BG | USA |
| 1934 | Goshorn | John A. | BG | USA |
| 1934 | Yon | Joseph L. | RADM | USN |
| 1935 | Burton, Jr. | Custis | BG | USMC |
| 1935 | Humphreys, Jr. | James W. | MG | USAF |
| 1935 | Kirks | Rowland F. | BG | USA |
| 1935 | Riley | Thomas F. | BG | USMC |
| 1935 | Schupp, II | Carl F. | BG | USA |
| 1936 | Banks | Charles L. | BG | USMC |
| 1937 | Hastings | David C. | BG | USA |
| 1937 | Phipps | Charles H. | BG | USA |
| 1938 | Jeffrey, Jr. | Thomas S. | MG | USAF |
| 1938 | Neal, IV | Thomas D. | BG | USA |
| 1938 | Shepherd | James M. | BG | USA |
| 1939 | Edwards, Jr. | Richard A. | BG | USA |
| 1939 | Irby | Richard L. | BG | USA |
| 1939 | Tidwell, Jr. | William A. | BG | USA |
| 1940 | Beach | Charles | MG | USA |
| 1941 | Booker | F.C. | LTG | USA |
| 1942 | Boehmer | William J. | BG | USA |
| 1942 | Horne, III | R. C. | BG | USA |
| 1942 | Leech, Jr. | Lloyd L. | BG | USA |
| 1942 | Williams | R. W. | BG | USA |
| 1942 | Young, Jr. | Charles M. | BG | USA |
| 1943 | Smith | Jeffrey G. | LTG | USA |
| 1943 | Snead, Jr. | G. M. | BG | USA |
| 1944 | Wen | Patrick H. | BG | Chinese Nationalist Army |
| 1945 | Bristow, Jr. | Walter J. | BG | USA |
| 1945 | Grojean | Charles | RADM | USN |
| 1945 | Morgan, Jr. | James M. | MG | VA Mitilia, Army |
| 1945 | Walker | Sam S. | GEN | USA |
| 1946 | Ashley | Maurice C. | BG | USMC |
| 1947 | Williamson | Dan H. | BG | USA |
| 1948 | Sadler | Jack R. | BG | USA |
| 1949-B | Prillaman | Richard L. | LTG | USA |
| 1949-B | Soucek | Leo E. | BG | USA |
| 1949-B | Walter, Jr. | Alonzo J. | BG | USAF |
| 1950-B | Leitheiser | Richard E. | MG | USAR |
| 1950-B | Ward | Tom | RADM | USN |
| 1951 | Bass | Sampson H. | MG | USA |
| 1951 | Catlin, Jr. | John E. | BG | USAF |
| 1951 | Ewing | Douglas J. | BG | USA |
| 1951 | Lawrence | Richard | LTG | USA |
| 1951 | Lazzell | Rufus C. | BG | USA |
| 1951 | Marshall | James H. | MG | USAF |
| 1951 | Moore | William C. | MG | USA |
| 1951 | Wick, Jr. | Robert L. | MG | USA |
| 1951 | Williams | Paul S. | LTG | USA |
| 1952 | McCarthy |