Arlington National necropolis in Arlington County, Virginia, may be a military necropolis within the u. S. Of America, established throughout the yankee warfare on the grounds of Arlington House, once the estate of the family of Confederate general Henry Martyn Robert E. Lee’s spouse Virgin Mary Pakistani monetary unit (Custis) Lee, a good grand-daughter of Martha Washington. The necropolis is placed directly across the river from the monument in Washington, D.C. It’s served by the Arlington necropolis station on the Blue Line of the Washington subway system.
In a section of 624 acres (253 ha), veterans and military casualties from every of the nation’s wars area unit buried within the necropolis, starting from the yankee warfare through to the military actions in Asian country and Asian nation. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred once 1900.
Arlington National necropolis and u. S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National necropolis area unit administered by the Department of the military. The opposite national cemeteries area unit administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs or by the park Service. Arlington House (Custis-Lee Mansion) and its grounds area unit administered by the park Service as a memorial to Lee.
George Washington Parke Custis, grandchild of Martha Washington, noninheritable the land that now could be Arlington National necropolis in 1802, and started construction of Arlington House. The estate passed to Custis’ and his wife’s (Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis) solely living adult kid Virgin Mary Pakistani monetary unit Custis Lee[not in citation given] UN agency was married to Henry Martyn Robert E. Lee, a West Point graduate and u. S. Officer. Once Fort Sumter was forced to surrender at the start of the yankee warfare, President Abraham Lincoln offered Lee command of the federal army. Lee demurred, waiting to check if his native Virginia would plan to separate.
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