I heard that the yanks started using his home for a graveyard for soldiers even before the war was over. I hope I am wrong about that.
No, you are not wrong. It was an attempt to humiliate Lee.....
No, and it was deliberate. They wanted to make the property unliveable.
The Lee family eventually got some money, but it took a lengthy court battle that lasted over a decade, as I recall.
” heard that the yanks started using his home for a graveyard for soldiers even before the war was over. I hope I am wrong about that.”
Its true.
You are not. Arlington was seized by Union troops in 1861. As I posted elsewhere, Maj. Gen. Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the U.S Army [and a Southerner], ordered Uniuon dead buried there after his son was killed fighting in the Shenandoah.
I don’t think you are. Tragic, but I think he would love what his home is today, the home of American honor. I bet he wouldn’t even mind that John Schofield is buried there.