[DOC] [TLE] Montgomery C. Meigs - Wikipedia [PAR] Montgomery Cunningham Meigs was a career United States Army officer and 
civil engineer, ... Meigs was one of the principal architects of Arlington National 
Cemetery; the .... Meigs ordered that an examination of eligible sites be made for 
the ... The first officer burial had occurred there on May 17, but with Meigs' order... [DOC] [TLE] Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General, United States Army [PAR] "Perhaps in the history of the world there was never so large an amount of money 
disbursed upon the order of ..... The son (John Rodgers Meigs), Father and 
Mother of Montgomery C. Meigs ... He chose the Cavalry as his branch of the 
Army and first served in the 8th Cavalry at Fort Bliss. ... Buried at: Plot C Row 23 
Grave 36 [DOC] [TLE] Montgomery C. Meigs | American engineer and architect | Britannica ... [PAR] It was Meigs who suggested to Abraham Lincoln that Arlington would be an 
appropriate site for a national cemetery. Meigs himself is buried there. [DOC] [TLE] History and Development of the National Cemetery Administration [PAR] National cemeteries were first developed in the United States during the Civil 
War. ... 1862, Congress empowered President Abraham Lincoln, to purchase ... 
The urgent nature of the war necessitated burial of soldiers on battlefields, ... 
Alexandria National Cemetery depleted, Quartermaster General Montgomery C. 
Meigs. [DOC] [TLE] How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be | History | Smithsonian [PAR] Montgomery C. Meigs, a fellow West Point graduate who had served ..... Why no 
photo of the magnificent mansion that figures prominently in site descriptions? .... 
The way I heard it, Lincoln first offered the Army of the Potomoc to Lee, the .... 
Second fact is that there are many, many Confederate soldiers buried in Arlington
. [DOC] [TLE] "rfftU [PAR] ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, OLD AMPHITHEATER. HABS No. ... site. 
Designed by Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs, the .... was the first to 
suggest to President Lincoln that the Lee estate be ... Ironically, the first man 
buried there ... bodies already buried on the site of the mansion, Mr. Lee. 3United
... [DOC] [TLE] Section 27 of Arlington National Cemetery - The Friends of ... [PAR] An old section of Arlington national cemetery, dedicated to the burial of colored 
.... in campbut there is evidence to suggest some double counting of deaths. ... 
Soldiers were first interred at the six-acre graveyard at the U.S. Military Asylum or 
... General Montgomery C. Meigs, officially designated as a military cemetery... [DOC] [TLE] The Civil War affected technology - Anderson Independent-Mail [PAR] Jul 5, 2014 ... Newspapers of the day, as well as First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, said ... 
Historians for Arlington said the grounds were suggested as a site for Union dead 
by Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, who appropriated the land on June 15, 1864
. ... There, Meigs buried the remains of 1,800 Bull Run casualties, the... [DOC] [TLE] Arlington Cemetery Self-Guided Walking Tour | Free Tours by foot [PAR] (Warning: there is uphill walking for the first half of this tour) ... and off at the three 
major sites within the cemetery  the Kennedy Grave Site, the Tomb of the 
Unknown Soldier, ... What exactly does it take to be eligible for burial here at 
Arlington National Cemetery? ..... Montgomery Meigs Grave in Arlington National 
Cemetery... [DOC] [TLE] Arlington National Cemetery, and the fight over Robert E. Lee's ... [PAR] Apr 24, 2014 ... Montgomery C. Meigs detested Robert E. Lee, who had once been his ... As 
quartermaster general and close adviser to Lincoln, Meigs was often ... wound: 
He ordered that bodies be buried in Mary Lee's much-prized ... Since then the 
cemetery has tripled in size; there are now more than 400,000 graves. [DOC] [TLE] Early Growth of the National Cemetery System [PAR] The first includes burial grounds opened at troop concentration points, where ... 
use of its land, the cemetery site first occupied in 1861 still belongs to the 
Soldiers' Home. ... Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the Army, to 
examine that

Question: Montgomery C. Meigs, who was the first to suggest it to A. Lincoln as a cemetery site, is buried there
Answer: Arlington National Cemetery