West Point Cemetery - Citizendia

West Point Cemetery is an historic cemetery on the grounds of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. "USMA" redirects here For other uses see USMA (disambiguation The United States Military Academy (also known as USMA, West Point is a federal military reservation (and a Census-designated place) located North of the Village of Highland Falls in Orange County New York It overlooks the Hudson River, and served as a burial ground for American Revolutionary War soldiers and early West Point inhabitants long before 1817 when it was officially designated as a military cemetery. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots" Year 1817 ( MDCCCXVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Until that time several small burial plots scattered in mid-post served as places of interment. The graves from these plots and the remains subsequently found during building excavations were removed to the new site. An improved road to the cemetery was constructed in 1840, and the caretaker's cottage was erected in 1872. Year 1872 ( MDCCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year

Notable interments

Major General Bryant Edward Moore, Korea IX corps,WWII 8th inf div "Blue Devils" "Timberwolves" and Pacific

Major General Daniel Butterfield, composer of Taps
General Lucius D. Clay, "Father of the Berlin Airlift"
Earl "Red" Blaik, Army football head coach 1941–1958, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Margaret Corbin, Revolutionary War heroine
Major General George Armstrong Custer, commander at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Maggie Dixon, head women's basketball coach at Army at the time of her unexpected death in 2006
Major General George Washington Goethals, "Builder of the Panama Canal"
Major General Frederick Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Daniel Adams Butterfield (October 31 1831 &ndash July 17 1901 was a New York businessman a Union General in the American Civil War, and General Lucius Dubignon Clay ( April 23 1897 &ndash April 16 1978) was an American general and military governor best known for his Earl Henry "Red" Blaik ( February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989) was an American football coach The Army Black Knights football program represents the United States Military Academy. The College Football Hall of Fame, located in South Bend Indiana, USA is a hall of fame and museum devoted to College football. Margaret Corbin ( November 12, 1751 – January 16, 1800) was a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Margaret Mary "Maggie" Dixon ( May 9 1977 &ndash April 6 2006) was an American collegiate women's basketball George Washington Goethals ( June 29, 1858 - January 21, 1928) was a United States Army officer and Civil engineer Frederick Dent Grant ( May 30, 1850 &ndash April 12, 1912) was a soldier and United States minister to Austria-Hungary Grant
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
Major General Wesley Merritt, Civil War veteran, Military Governor of the Philippines
Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, Israel's first major general
General Alexander Patch, commander of U.S. Seventh Army
Major General Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War veteran, United States Military Academy Superintendent
Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, longest serving American general
Major General George Sykes, Civil War commander
Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, United States Military Academy superintendent
Ensign Dominick Trant, oldest grave in the cemetery
General William Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff
Lieutenant Colonel Edward Higgins White, first American to make a spacewalk

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Ethan Allen Hitchcock ( May 18, 1798 &ndash August 5, 1870) was a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department Ranald Slidell Mackenzie ( July 27, 1840 &ndash January 19, 1889) was a career United States Army officer and general in the Buffalo Soldiers is a Nickname originally applied to the members of the U Wesley Merritt ( June 16, 1836 &ndash December 3, 1910) was a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War David Daniel Marcus ( 22 February 1901 &ndash 10 June 1948) commonly known as Mickey Marcus, was an American United General Alexander McCarrell "Sandy" Patch (November 23 1889 – November 21 1945 was an officer in the United States Army, best known for his service The Seventh United States Army, formerly the United States Army Europe, is the land component of United States European Command. Thomas Howard Ruger ( April 2, 1833 &ndash June 3, 1907) was an American Soldier and Lawyer who served as a Winfield Scott ( June 13, 1786 &ndash May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general Diplomat, and presidential candidate George Sykes ( October 9, 1822 &ndash February 8, 1880) was a career United States Army officer and a Union General Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer ( June 9, 1785 - September 7 1872) also known as "the Father of West Point" was an early superintendent William C Westmoreland ( March 26, 1914 &ndash July 18, 2005) was an American General who commanded American military Edward Higgins White II (LtCol, USAF ( November 14, 1930 &ndash January 27, 1967) was a United States Air Force officer and

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