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The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is an independent agency of the United States government that administers, operates, and maintains permanent U.S. military cemeteries, memorials and monuments primarily outside the United States. [2] There were 26 cemeteries and 31 memorials, monuments and markers under the care of the ABMC.
The United States Military Academy (USMA) is a federal service academy located at West Point, New York that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army. The Academy was formally founded in 1802 and graduated its first class in October of the same year. It is the oldest of the five American service academies. Due to the academy ...
Big Hole is the only site in the Western United States. In 1890, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was the first such site created by Congress . Originally these sites were maintained by the War Department , but were transferred to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933.
List of National Monuments of the United States; List of national memorials of the United States; List of equestrian statues in the United States; List of monuments at the United States Military Academy; List of memorials and monuments at Arlington National Cemetery; List of memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic
48th Pennsylvania Monument, in memory Colonel George W. Gowen and 48th Regiment 1907 [52] Petersburg National Battlefield: Monument to the United States Colored Troops who fought during the Siege of Petersburg. [53] Portsmouth: Civil War Monument at Lincoln Cemetery (Portsmouth, Virginia) [54] Franklin: General Thomas Highway (Route 671).
Some of the monuments include: Eisenhower Monument. This 9-foot (2.7 m) statue of former General of the Army and the 34th President of the United States was dedicated in 1983. [43] Designed by Robert L. Dean, class of 1953, it sits atop a pedestal of red granite and looks out over the Plain to the North. Kosciuszko's Monument. Dedicated in 1828 ...
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 military cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [2]