They should have chose another spot for the cemetery instead of the Lee Mansion and grounds by that spiteful drunken Grant.
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Get your facts straight ...
It was Quartermaster General Meigs who recommended that Arlington be used as a cemetery.
It was Quartermaster General Meigs who recommended that Arlington be used as a cemetery.
OK Grant was his boss and who masterminded the Rose Garden interment? Just so Lee would not come back to his property.