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May 14, 2024 · On June 15, 1864, Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs authorized the creation of a national cemetery on 200 acres (81 hectares) surrounding Arlington House to accommodate “the bodies of all soldiers dying in the Hospitals of the vicinity of Washington and Alexandria.”
May 20, 2024 · An aerial view of Arlington National Cemetery's east entrance and the cemetery's Women's Military Memorial in August 2013. Arlington National Cemetery is one of two cemeteries in the United States National Cemetery System that are maintained by the United States Army. Nearly 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington ...
May 14, 2024 · The property was originally owned by George Washington Parke Custis, President George Washington’s step-grandson, to be a living memorial to the United States’ first president and a working plantation. Custis’ plantation, which encompassed 1,100 acres, was actively worked by enslaved laborers.
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3 days ago · For many years after Arlington National Cemetery’s establishment on May 13, 1864, Civil War service members were the only veterans buried at the cemetery. Today, however, service members who fought in all U.S. conflicts lay at rest on these hallowed grounds, including veterans of wars that predated the establishment of Arlington as a military cemetery. On Independence Day, we take a look at ...
May 1, 2024 · Parking At Arlington National Cemetery. The Arlington National Cemetery parking facility is located at the main Memorial Avenue entrance, next to the Welcome Center. Parking is open from 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM and costs $3 per hour, with a daily maximum of $12 a day.
3 days ago · 5. Lilly E. Gray's Eery Epithet (1881–1958) Location: Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Amidst the 250-acre Salt Lake City Cemetery, there is a simple headstone with Lilly's name, birth and death dates, and the following provocative epithet: " Victim of the Beast 666 ". The number "666" and "The Beast" are terms frequently ...
May 14, 2024 · 04/26/1873; Canby Cross, CA; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA Notes 1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903 , 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 953 [AotW citation 20724]
