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.
OK Grant was his boss and who masterminded the Rose Garden interment? Just so Lee would not come back to his property.
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Meigs wrote to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton suggesting that Robert E. Lee’s estate Arlington, which had been confiscated by the Federal government, be used for a military cemetery. “The grounds about the mansion are admirably adapted to such a use,” Meigs wrote on 15 June 1864. That same day, Stanton informed Meigs that he would allot 200 acres of the estate as burial ground.
In August 1864, twenty-six men were buried around Mrs. Lee’s rose garden.
Who masterminded the Rose Garden interments ???
Probably Meigs himself - he had a HUGE hatred of the South and Robert E. Lee, although he had served under and admired Lee prior to the war.
He considered Lee a traitor ...