Wood's Monument (West Point)

Wood's Monument
Wood's Monument
United States
	Wood's monument in its current location in the West Point Cemetery
	For Colonel Eleazer D. Wood
Unveiled	1818
Location	41°23′57.55″N 73°57′58.3″W / 41.3993194°N 73.966194°W; near Highland Falls, New York
	To the Memory of Lieut Colonel E. D. Wood of the CORPS OF ENGINEERS who fell while leading a Charge at the sortie of Fort Erie UPPER CANADA 17th September 1814 in the 31st Year of his age.

Wood's Monument is an obelisk monument in honor of Colonel Eleazer Derby Wood (1783–1814), an engineer officer and early graduate of West Point who died during the War of 1812 at the Siege of Fort Erie on 17 September 1814. Old prints of West Point show this monument located on a knoll near the flag pole. The monument was once used as a navigational aid for ships making the passage down the Hudson River.^[1]

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