[MurrietaMadman]

..."One sees more than poetic justice in the fact that its rich lands, so long the domain of the great general of the rebellion, now afford labor and support to hundreds of enfranchised slaves," a visiting journalist would report in the Washington Independent in January 1867.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Battle-of-Arlington.html#ixzz0UvZSWgO0

[MurrietaMadman]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Battle-of-Arlington.html

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[Rebelbase]

Rich irony that the home of the South’s most beloved General became the Nation’s most hallowed ground.

[microgood]

Interesting article. So the land was owned by Mary Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee and the Feds stole it from her. Guess they have been doing that longer than I thought.

[kalee]

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[BigCinBigD]

“Make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it,” Sherman wrote.

The generations have past. And times come round at last, soon, once again the people will “appeal to it”.