Outside the Pershing Center of West Point is the Army Mascot--the Mule.
This one is to Hannibal but I don't know which one as there have been two.
The Visitor Center at West Point is open to the public.
West Point celebrated its bicentennial in 2002.
The West Point Coat of Arms.
The Civil War era figures prominently in both the Visitor Center and the Museum--here we see Grant and Lee.
Quartermaster Meigs is featured
And O. O. Howard
A map of West Point's location on the Hudson and graphic of the chain used to block the Hudson at this point during the Revolutionary War.
Next stop is the museum
Olmstead Hall--home of the West Point Museum
The museum fills 4 floors of the building
What a magnificent display of autumn foliage
Civil War Artillery Projectiles
Civil War Hand Grenades
The Hale rocket launcher
From the advanced to pikes and lance
View of the athletic fields, Hudson and east bank from the Cadet Chapel
View toward The Plain from the Cadet Chapel
The “new” Cadet Chapel
Cadet Chapel
Detail on the outside of the Chapel
Interior of the Chapel
This candle is always lit
It represents the cadet alumni who cannot attend services because they are at combat or a POW.
The console of the world's largest working church organ
The alter
The statue of St. Michael was donated by U.S. Grant's family
View from the alter of all the regimental battle flags going back to the Civil War
The West Point motto in the Chapel's stained glass
Officer's quarters
The West Point Cemetery
The Old Cadet Chapel was moved to the cemetery
Front of the chapel which was originally located by the parade ground but had to make way for another building
Rear of the Old Cadet Chapel
Just think who has passed through this door
Interior of the Old Cadet Chapel
Col. David Marcus--killed by friendly fire fighting for Israel in 1948, the only cadet who has died fighting under the flag of another country--“A soldier for all humanity”
The grave of Margaret “Capt. Molly” Corbin
Molly “manned” a gun during a Revolutionary War battle with her husband and continued after he was killed.
Norman Cota--major advisor to Operation Overlord and asst. division commander of the 29th Infantry at Omaha
“Jumpin' Jim” Gavin led the first regimental sized Airborne landing of the Sicily invasion
Wm Westmoreland--commander of military operations in Vietnam
Geo. Washington Goethals--chief engineer of the Panama Canal
Anderson Fountain--Memorial to “The Hero of Ft. Sumter”
Gen. Erasmus Keyes lead the Union IV Corps for the first half of the Civil War
Gen. Judson Kilpatrick's grave
Gen. John Buford's grave
Full view of Buford's monument
Grave of Gen. George Sykes--commander of the Union V Corps at Gettysburg
General-in-Chief Winfield Scott
“Old Fuss and Feathers”
Gen. Robert Anderson's grave
Backside of Anderson's monument
Bronze plaque on George Armstrong Custer's grave
Custer's monument
More of the Custer monument's plaques
Gen. Dan Butterfield's elaborate monument
Butterfield's monument
Quite ornate
Gen. Egbert Viele's pyramid tomb--he commanded the US Volunteers and was Military Governor of Norfolk during the Civil War
Viele feared being buried alive so had a light and buzzer installed in the tomb--just in case
One of the "less endowed" sphinxs Viele's wife had installed
Next stop was Trophy Point and its magnificent overlook of the Hudson River
Tug on the river
Another view from Trophy Point
Battle Monument
Battle Monument is dedicated to all the Regular Army soldiers who died in the Civil War
Inscription on the shaft
The canons are inscribed with the names of battles
View of Sedgwick Monument and part of Battle Monument
Some of the war trophies at Trophy Point
Gen. John “Uncle John” Sedgwick's statue across from Trophy Point
Depiction of Sedgwick's death
Uncle John's “lucky spur rowels”
The Plain--the parade ground
Superintendent's Quarters
Buildings surrounding the parade ground and Cadet Chapel in background
