page_title: Wood's Monument (West Point)
hierarchical_section_title: Wood's Monument (West Point)
caption_attribution_description: English: Wood's Monument, West Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
context_page_description: Wood's Monument is an obelisk monument in honor of Colonel Eleazer Derby Wood, 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Wood's monument in its current location in the West Point Cemetery
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