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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WPTCEM_160918_004.JPG: Anderson Memorial Fountain
2. WPTCEM_160918_010.JPG: Gen. William Westmoreland '36, veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam was also superintendent here and Army Chief of Staff.
3. WPTCEM_160918_016.JPG: Lt. Col. (USAF) Edward White, II '52, the first American to walk in space, died on Apollo 1 with Lt. Col. (USAF) Gus Grissom in 1967.
4. WPTCEM_160918_022.JPG: Gen. Lucius Clay '18 served as the post-WWII Allied Commander in Europe, directing what became known as the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. The citizens of Berlin placed a small marker at his grave.
5. WPTCEM_160918_025.JPG: Maj. Gen. George Washington Goethals '80 supervised construction of the Panama Canal. His massive headstone, which might be assumed to be from Panama, is actually from Vermont.
6. WPTCEM_160918_031.JPG: Maj. Gen. Fredrick Dent Grant '71, eldest son of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant '43 (who is interred in Grant's Tomb in Manhattan), fought in the Spanish-American War and was NYC Police Commissioner.
7. WPTCEM_160918_050.JPG: Lt. Col. Eleazor Wood '06, was killed during the War of 1812. This obelisk and the Cadet Monument #17. appear in old prints at their original location on a knoll near Trophy Point. Wood is also memorialized by Fort Wood, the star-shaped fortification on Liberty Island whose walls became the distinctive base for the Statue of Liberty.
8. WPTCEM_160918_052.JPG: A pupil of this institution, he died an honour to his country
9. WPTCEM_160918_086.JPG: Maj. Gen. John Buford, ‘48, superb Union cavalryman, was played by Sam Elliott in "Gettysburg."
10. WPTCEM_160918_104.JPG: Maj. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick ‘61, known as "Kill Cavalry," for his daring and often futile mounted charges
11. WPTCEM_160918_121.JPG: Gen. William Westmoreland '36, veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam was also superintendent here and Army Chief of Staff.
12. WPTCEM_160918_148.JPG: Brig. Gen. Egbert Viele '47, the Chief Engineer of Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Afraid of being buried alive, his mausoleum had a light & a buzzer to signal the caretaker.
13. WPTCEM_160918_152.JPG: Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield commanded a division in the Civil War, and his ornate monument records his thirty-eight battles and engagements. He helped compose the mournful bugle call "Taps."
14. WPTCEM_160918_166.JPG: Lt. Col. George A. Custer June '61, brevetted major general for bravery in the Civil War, died with most of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 1876.
15. WPTCEM_160918_191.JPG: Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson '25 served as an artillery instructor here prior the Civil War which began in April 1861 when Anderson, commanding the Union forces at Fort Sumter, was fired upon by one of his former cadets, CSA Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. The fountain next to the caretaker's cottage was erected in his honor.
16. WPTCEM_160918_225.JPG: Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, the greatest American military leader of the early 19th Century, was the hero of the War of 1812, conqueror of Mexico City, & commanded the U.S. Army on the eve of the Civil War. Cadet gray uniforms are in honor of his 1814 victory at Chippawa, Ont.
17. WPTCEM_160918_234.JPG: Col. Sylvanus Thayer, "The Father of the Military Academy," implemented the rigorous academics that established West Point as a great engineering college and leader development institution.
18. WPTCEM_160918_252.JPG: Don't Quit When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don't give up though the pace seems slow-- You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out-- The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-- It's when things seem worst that you must not quit. - Edgar A. Guest
19. WPTCEM_160918_281.JPG: Civil War Truster at George Custer memorial
20. WPTCEM_160918_283.JPG: Elizabeth Bacon, wife of George A. Custer, Major General U.S.A. April 8, 1842 April 4, 1933
21. WPTCEM_160918_293.JPG: 1st. Lt. Thomas Selfridge '03, in 1908,the first person killed in a powered fixed-wing aircraft. This is a cenotaph, erected in his honor but his remains lie in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery, near the very spot on Fort Myer where he and Orville Wright crashed.
22. WPTCEM_160918_297.JPG: In memoriam Thos. E. Selfridge, 1st Lieut. 1st Field Artillery, who gave up his life in the service of his country at Ft. Myer, VA., Sept. 17, 1908; in falling with the first government aeroplane. Age 26 Years U.S.M.A. '05
23. WPTCEM_160918_305.JPG: 1st Lt. Laura Walker '03, first female graduate killed in action, in Afghanistan in 2005
24. WPTCEM_160918_311.JPG: Gen. Alexander M. Patch '13 led both Soldiers and Marines at Guadalcanal and then the Seventh Army in the invasion of southern France in 1944. He lies next to his father '77, nephew '48 & grandson
25. WPTCEM_160918_317.JPG: Earl "Red" Blaik ‘20 coached Army football to National Championships in 1944, 1945 & 1946.
26. WPTCEM_160918_394.JPG: Maj. Francis Dade and 114 of his 117 Soldiers were killed by Seminole Indians in 1835. Buried at St. Augustine National Cemetery, Dade is memorialized here and by Miami-Dade County Fla.
27. WPTCEM_160918_409.JPG: Norman Schwarzkopf
28. WPTCEM_160918_412.JPG: Lt. Gen. James Gavin '29 became the youngest major general in the Army since George Custer when he took command of the 82nd Airborne Division at age 37. Robert Ryan portrayed him in "The Longest Day;" Ryan O'Neil played him in "A Bridge Too Far."
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Wikipedia Description: West Point Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 American Revolutionary War soldiers and early West Point inhabitants long before 1817 when it was officially designated as a military cemetery. Prior to 1817, the area was known as "German Flats" before it was formally designated as the official cemetery. Until that time several small burial plots scattered in mid-post also 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. The cemetery is home to several monuments, to include Dade Monument, the Cadet Monument, Wood's Monument, and Margaret Corbin Monument.

Notable interments

The cemetery includes interments of many notable people:

* 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 general
* Major General John Buford, Union cavalry commander who set the stage for the Battle of Gettysburg
* Major General Daniel Butterfield, composer of Taps
* General 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 (American football), Heisman Trophy winner for 1946
* Maggie Dixon, women's basketball coach at West Point, 2005–2006
* Captain Philip Egner, the longtime director of the West Point Band and composer of the West Point fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team."
* 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., 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
* Major General Wesley Merritt, Civil War veteran, Military Governor of the Philippines
* Major General Bryant Edward Moore, Korea IX corps,WWII 8th inf div "Timberwolves" and Pacific
* General Alexander M. Patch, commander of U.S. Seventh Army
* 2nd Lieutenant Emily J. T. Perez, KIA IRAQ – 2006, NCAA Award of Valor – 2008.
* Major General Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War veteran, United States Military Academy Superintendent
* Major General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, 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 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
* 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.
* 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, United States Military Academy, Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam from 1964–1968.
* Lieutenant Colonel Edward Higgins White II, first American to make a spacewalk, killed in Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967.
* Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Phillips, Sr., Soldier's Medal Recipient, 1960 Graduate
* Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Eleazer D. Wood, first West Point Graduate to die in battle and first to be buried at West Point.
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