From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery\'s History has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans.
During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper\'s cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of t.
Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen\'s Village and farm, and America\'s Most important burial ground.
This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E.
From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery\'s History has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans