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On Hallowed Ground: the Story of Arlington National Cemetery

โœ Scribed by Robert M Poole

Book ID
100212989
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc;Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Year
2000;2013
Tongue
English
Weight
284 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0802719783

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โœฆ Synopsis

On Hallowed Ground opens with the long-delayed funeral of four servicemen, brought home for final honors at Arlington National Cemetery almost forty years after they disappeared in Vietnam. To understand how this tradition of extraordinary care for our war dead began, Robert Poole traces the founding of Arlington Cemetery on what had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee. After resigning his commission in the U.S. Army, Lee left Arlington to command the Army of Northern Virginia. Arlington, strategic to the defense of Washington, D.C., became a U.S. Army headquarters and a cemetery for indigent Civil War soldiers before Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton made it the new national cemetery. Initially, there was no honor attached to being buried at Arlington; this began to change after the war, as the Union gathered thousands of hastily-buried casualties from nearby battlefields and reinterred them at Arlington, where they received the honors of a grateful nation. But the...

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