“the most revered battle site in Texas history”
Yes, and it was the battle in 1836 that made it so, and not some wandering tribe of Indians who also moved all over that part of Texas.
Arlington Cemetery is on land once owned by Robert E Lee. Now should that hallowed ground be turned into a land fill because of it?
Absolutely not. It was once owned by Lee, and then it was confiscated by Lincoln and the North. I know they sued, and won a small pittance as recompense after the war, if I remember correctly.
“Arlington Cemetery is on land once owned by Robert E Lee. “
Owned through his wife. Arlington was built by and the property of George Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of Martha Washington. George and Martha raised Parke Custis as their own son when Parke’s father died at Yorktown.
Robert E Lee married Mary Anna Custis, Parke Custis’ daughter, Martha’s g-granddaughter. When Parke died in 1857 Lee and his wife inherited Arlington.