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re: When will SJW's go after Arlington Nationals Cemetary?

Posted on 5/29/17 at 2:22 pm to
Posted by HarryBalzack
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Posted on 5/29/17 at 2:22 pm to
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I mean, amongst other reasons, didn't the Union choose that site specifically because it was Lee's? As kind of a deliberate insult against him and the CSA.

Yes, Montgomery Meigs, whose own son had been killed int he war, was the Quartermaster General and he picked it. He put the first graves in a semi-circle around the front porch so that no one could ever sit on it and enjoy the view again.

Arlington House was actually Lee's wife's property that she inherited from one of Washington's step-sons.
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