After his death in 1902, Brigadier General Egbert Ludovicus Viele was interred in this pyramid-shaped mausoleum in West Point Cemetery. Viele was born in 1825 in Waterford, New York, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1847. Following service in the Mexican-American War, Viele became a civilian engineer, eventually becoming the chief engineer for the construction of Central Park. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Viele was given a commission as a Brigadier General in the Union Army, where he went on to command troops…
