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  2. Arlington National Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Officers of the 8th New York Infantry Regiment at Arlington House in June 1861, two months after the beginning of the American Civil War The Custis-Lee Mansion, originally known as Arlington House, [5] with Union Army soldiers on its lawn during the American Civil War on June 28, 1864 Arlington National Cemetery and the Netherlands Carillon in December 2012 The Old Guard transports the flag ...

  3. Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial - Wikipedia

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    Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington.Currently maintained by the National Park Service, it is located in the U.S. Army's Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (formerly Alexandria, D.C.).

  4. List of burial places of presidents and vice presidents of ...

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    Youngs Memorial Cemetery: Oyster Bay: New York: 27 William Howard Taft [35] March 8, 1930: Arlington National Cemetery: Arlington: Virginia: 28 Woodrow Wilson [36] February 3, 1924: Washington National Cathedral: Washington, D.C. 29 Warren G. Harding [37] August 2, 1923 [G] Harding Tomb [Q] Marion: Ohio: 30 Calvin Coolidge [38] January 5, 1933 ...

  5. United States National Cemetery System - Wikipedia

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    The National Cemetery Administration lists a total of 73 Civil War-Era National Cemeteries from 1861 to 1868. [ 9 ] Final military honors are provided for qualified Veterans by volunteer veteran or National Guard details known as Memorial Honor Details (MHD), upon application by family members through their choice of mortuary handling the deceased.

  6. List of memorials and monuments at Arlington National Cemetery

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    There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.

  7. Arlington National Cemetery to remove a slave-depicting ... - AOL

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    ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the ...

  8. Confederate Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery) - Wikipedia

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    The federal government's policy toward Confederate graves at Arlington National Cemetery changed at the end of the 19th century. The 10-week Spanish–American War of 1898 marked the first time since prior to the Civil War that Americans from all states, North and South, were involved in a military conflict with a foreign power. [11]

  9. What Arlington National Cemetery rules say about politicizing ...

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    The Trump campaign has blamed Arlington National Cemetery for a confrontation during former President Trump’s visit there Monday. The incident occurred when a photographer walked around the ...