West Point Cemetery - United States Military Academy - West Point, New York
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BruceS
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Historic cemetery located at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Waymark Code: WM4DH9
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 08/09/2008
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In the WEST POINT CEMETERY, behind the chapel, the graves of enlisted men
and civilians are side by side with those of Major Thayer and Generals Scott and
Custer. It contains, among others, the graves of Margaret Corbin,
Revolutionary heroine, and Susan and Anna Warner, popular authors who lived on
Constitution Island and whose kindliness in the early days of of the Academy
eased the burden of homesick cadets.. - New York: A Guide to the Empire State, West Point section pg 364.
The cemetery is now the final resting place for more than 6,000. The
cemetery had graves of the fallen from the Revolutionary War to the present.
The West Point Cemetery is not part the the national cemetery system but is
administered similarly however with different eligibility rules for burial
(former graduates, spouses, and others who have contributed to West Point) and
more open rules for headstone markers. For a more complete tour of the
West Point Cemetery
see online tour compiled by the Department of History