Northwest of the cadet area, it was known as "German Flats" before its formal designation as the official cemetery in 1817.[2] 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.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
Alonzo Cushing, Union artillery officer, killed during
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014
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]
Northwest of the cadet area, it was known as "German Flats" before its formal designation as the official cemetery in 1817.[2] 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.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
Alonzo Cushing, Union artillery officer, killed during
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014
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]