Thread: How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be

According to the Union, it wasn't a foreign nation. Also, you think that the U.S. government started the war? The war that officially commenced after Confederate forces assaulted and captured Fort Sumter? Oh, and don't forget about the Confederacy's utter economic dependence on slave labor.

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It was war and it belonged to a union army commander turned confederate. What exactly did you expect would happen? The U.S government would plant daisies and mow the lawn?

Just a case of Federal theft.

that ***** meigs should be disinterred and thrown in the trash.

No words can properly honor the men and women who give their lives for their country, or the families who sacrifice so much. Thank you.

It was private property owned by someone in a foreign nation. The Feds should have left it alone, but, they shouldn't have waged the war to begin with.

It's a must stop for anyone visiting DC, to at the very least, pay some respect. A lot of people don't realize how big the cemetery is. It's roughly twice as large as the Mall, http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&amp ... Some of my photos from my first visit, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mt_falldog/sets/72157 ...

No, when he insisted on killing people from MY home state they took his land. He could have stayed out of the war entirely and been just dandy. Frankly, he's lucky they didn't imprison or hang him.