West Point Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

• Major General Robert Anderson, Union Army officer in command of Fort Sumter at start of 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 Daniel Butterfield, composer of Taps
• Major General John Buford, Union cavalry commander who set the stage for the Battle of Gettysburg
• General Lucius D. Clay, "Father of the Berlin Airlift"
• Margaret Corbin, Revolutionary War heroine.
• Major General George Armstrong Custer, commander at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• Glenn Davis (American football), Heisman Trophy winner for 1946
• 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. Grant
• Lieutenant General Howard Dwayne Graves, Superintendent, United States Military Academy
• 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 Grey 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 "Blue Devils" "Timberwolves" and Pacific
• 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
• 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 Infantry, died at West Point in 1782. His grave is the oldest one 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
• Lieutenant Colonel Edward Higgins White II, first American to make a spacewalk, killed in Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967.
• Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Eleazer D. Wood, first West Point Graduate to die in battle and first to be buried at West Point.
• 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 Persian Gulf War.

• Old Cadet Chapel at the entrance to the cemetery

• Caretaker's Cottage