US Military Academy cemetery
West Point Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the grounds of the United States Military Academy in West Point , New York . It overlooks the Hudson River , and served as a burial ground for Continental Army soldiers during the American Revolutionary War , and for early West Point residents prior to its designation as a military cemetery in 1817.
Northwest of the cadet area, it was known as "German Flats" before its formal designation as the official cemetery in 1817.[2]
An improved road to the cemetery was constructed in 1840, and the caretaker's cottage was erected in 1872.[1] Dade Monument , Cadet Monument , Custer Monument , Wood's Monument , and Margaret Corbin Monument .
Notable interments
The cemetery includes interments of many notable people:[3]
Brigadier General Clare Hibbs Armstrong , commanded Anti-Aircraft defense of Antwerp during World War II
Major General Robert Anderson , Union Army officer in command of Fort Sumter at start of the Civil War
Earl "Red" Blaik , Army football head coach (1941–1958), member of the College Football Hall of Fame John Milton Brannan , Union army generalMajor General John Buford , Union cavalry commander who set the stage for the Battle of Gettysburg
Major General Daniel Butterfield , composer of Taps
Eugene Asa Carr , Medal of Honor recipientGeneral Lucius D. Clay , "Father of the Berlin Airlift "
Margaret Corbin , Revolutionary War heroine.Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo Cushing , Union artillery officer, killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer , Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and the Indian Wars, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Glenn Davis , Heisman Trophy winner for 1946Maggie Dixon , women's basketball coach at West Point, 2005–2006Major General Halstead Dorey , Commanded 4th Infantry Regiment during World War I ; recipient of Distinguished Service Cross
Major General John M. Devine , commanded 8th Armored Division during World War II ;
Captain Philip Egner , the longtime director of the West Point Band and composer of the West Point fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team."
Brigadier General John Eisenhower , historian, author, son of Dwight Eisenhower.
Lieutenant General James Maurice Gavin , commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II
Major General George Washington Goethals , "Builder of the Panama Canal"
Major General Frederick Dent Grant , son of President Ulysses S. Grant
Lieutenant General Howard Dwayne Graves , Superintendent, United States Military Academy
Major General William H. Hay , commander of the 28th Infantry Division in World War I
Major General Ethan Allen Hitchcock , Mexican–American War veteran, special advisor to the president during the Civil War
Brigadier General Ranald S. Mackenzie , Civil War veteran, commander of Buffalo Soldiers during the Indian Wars
Master Sergeant Martin "Marty" Maher, Jr. , athletic trainer and central character in the film The Long Gray Line
Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus , Israel's first general, only American buried here who died fighting under a foreign flag
Brigadier General Tully McCrea . Civil War veteran, artillery officer. Old Cadet Chapel at the entrance to the cemeteryCaretaker's Cottage Major General Wesley Merritt , Civil War veteran, Military Governor of the Philippines
Major General Bryant Edward Moore , Korea IX corps, World War II 8th Infantry Division "Timberwolves" and Pacific Theatre.
General Alexander M. Patch , commander of U.S. Seventh Army
2nd Lieutenant Emily J. T. Perez , †
Colonel Russell Potter "Red" Reeder, Jr. , World War II veteran and author.
Major General Thomas H. Ruger , Civil War veteran, United States Military Academy Superintendent
Major General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. , the first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. , commander of coalition forces in the Gulf War .
Lieutenant General Winfield Scott , longest serving American general (1813–1861), commanded the U.S. Army from 1841 to 1861.
Major General George Sykes , Civil War general and corps commander.
Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer , known as "The Father of the U.S. Military Academy" for the strict regimens implemented at his direction
Brigadier General John T. Thompson , inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
Brevet Major General John Caldwell Tidball , Civil War veteran, commandant of the U.S. Army Artillery School .
Brigadier General George H. Torney , Surgeon General of the United States Army
Ensign Dominick Trant, a native of Cork , Ireland and a soldier in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the Continental Army , died at West Point in 1782. His grave is the oldest in the cemetery.[citation needed
Colonel Theodore S. Westhusing , highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq War – 2005, "Multi-national Security Transition Command – Iraq".
General William Westmoreland , Army Chief of Staff, Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam from 1964 to 1968.
Lieutenant Colonel Ed White , first American to make a spacewalk , killed in the Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Eleazer D. Wood , first West Point Graduate to die in battle. Actually a cenotaph ; arguable whether he is actually buried there.[4] 
