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hospitals, temporary hospitals set up all over town. and of course those people started dying and had to be buried. so the national cemeteries were established at alexandria virginia and up the old soldier's home in northwest washington. they planned to accommodate all of those who died in the washington area hospitals. what happened was that the war went on longer and was bloodier than anybody expected this of that we pretty soon filled up the graveyards, national cemeteries in alexandria and at the old soldier's home in washington and needed new burial space. so the quartermaster's...

arlington has so much history tied up in the civil war, this section of the cemetery was begun in may of 1864 before there was a cemetery. how did that happen? it happened that 1864 the civil war had bee going on for several years and washington was a hospital city at that time. there were 50,000 soldiers and sailors in the hospitals of washington, temporary hospitals set up all over town and those people started dying. they had to be buried. so earlier in the war the national cemeteries were established at alexandria, virginia and the old soldier's home in northwest washington. they...

the graveyard in the national cemeteries in alexandria. and at the old soldiers home in washington. and he needed new burial space. so the quartermaster's office of the union army looked across the river and found this place, arlington, and thought it would be a good place to begin burying people. arlington happened to be the home of robert e. lee, the confederate general. so not only was it a convenient place to begin military burials from civil war, it was also felt to be a matter of justice, maybe even vindication if you want to call it that. the first military burials at arlingto...