On Memorial Day we reported 2,730 alumni on the site. Two weeks later, a dedicated volunteer — who has absolutely no prior connection to the Naval Academy — has discovered three additional men deserving of being listed with their classmates.
One of those, Naval Cadet 3/c Oskaloosa Schley, Class of 1859, was 18 years old when he fell from the foretop rigging of the practice ship Constellation on August 3, 1886. (Three other men drowned when the lifeboat sent to his aid was swamped.) Oskaloosa was remembered as "a bright young man," and his classmates erected a monument to his memory.
