The Eggnog Riot is mentioned in the acknowledgments not as a narrated episode but as the title of a novel by James Agnew, which the author identifies as a possible literary counterpart to this book’s West Point setting. The reference supplies no details about the riot itself, its participants, or its consequences.

Reference in the Acknowledgments

The author names James Agnew’s Eggnog Riot among the sources consulted and calls it perhaps the only other novel set at West Point in the nineteenth century. The acknowledgment presents the work as a point of comparison within the literary tradition of fiction set at the academy, rather than as a source for a particular account of the riot.

Limits of the Account

The passage does not describe when the riot occurred, what happened, or who took part. It therefore establishes the title’s relevance to West Point fiction but does not support a fuller reconstruction of the historical event or its place in the book’s plot.