Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-25
ARLINGTON CEMETERY AND A LIT
 TILE BIT OF ITS HISTORY

Social Corner Friends: By an order of. the secretary of war dated June Is, 1884. the Arlington mansion and grounds surrounding 1t not exceeding two hun dred acres were appropriated for unil- isary cemetery to be laid out and en- closed for the burial of all soldiers dying in. hospitals of the vicinity of Washing ton and Alexandria -'s -t --s-:
 Since the first lay out of this cemetery more land has been added until at the present time the actual area Is four hundred and; eight and one-third acres.
 The burial in this cemetery are mainly those, who died in hospitals in the vicinity of Washington, but includes also. fennains gathered from the battlefield of
 Bull Run, Manassas, Bristew Station. Ghantilly and Aldie; from numerous camps and fields between the Potomac
 and the Rapbahannock and removals from Point Lookout, Maryland and from abandoned cemeteries in the District of
 Columbia; also officers, soldiers P saiI- ors marines and army and navy nurses
 of the Spanish and World wars.
 jTne number buried Sept 30, 1891 Is
 S1,340 (known 2e,6626-unknown 4,174.)
 The Custis-Lee mansion was com
 naenced in 1S04. but not completed until
 after the war of ls12 and was the home
 of George Washington Parke Custis,
 adopted son of George Washington, then
 the home of Robert B. Lee, whose wife
 was Mary CuStis, 50 we can well under
 stand why she was interested in Mount Vernon and gave articles in her posses
 sion to the historical building. Lee oc-
 cupied the mansion until 1861 when he
 resigned his command in the U. &
 army to join the rebellion and became it's
 most conspicuous military leader :. =.
 .?!The mansion is preserved as it was in the days of -Custis and Lee. :. B. -.-
 The view ot Washington from Arling- ton has been famous for a century. From the porch of the famous building
 when Lafayette. was guest there he pronounced 1t one. of the most beautiful views he had ever looked. upon.
 | The Temple of Fame which looks like q huge umbrella, supported by seven oE eight round pillars has a name on each pillar, little more than half way up i bearing the names of Washington, Lin
 eeln, Grant and Farragut- Fhomal
 Meade Sedgwtck, Reynolds, Garfield and
 Mansfield. One name is..un each pillar
 the others being up around the top.
 | .The unknown soldiers are in ont I eommon srave5 deprived. of the indiYid, pal measure of fame which each one bJ
 his daring and dying merited even O 1 identification. Their names, homes :! friends. are all unknown. The simple story is told in letters chiseled on tn, Inronument's granite face
 II aSFhe thought as stood tn this cem | etAry and tried to realize a little bit 0 :, it's measuring was: Are we as civihze, As we should be? Are we over rated2 I giyes us, something to think about afte
 returning to our homes, especially moth iI CTS who gave up their sons-and who ha , a better right to children than the on , twho gave them birth7 ... rs.-'.
 | s!The Memorial An1phitheetre k built c :. white marble in the form of an eeiipss } It will seat $, ,008 people in the a1nphl , theatre proper and several thousand nor lin the eolonade. Estimated cost $T5es0Ot Near ithis amphitehatfe is the tomb. ( al the unknown dead and the guard. thei tof one of them told us 1t was the largei ! military funeral over him ever know iii Washington. The original mast f;S 2 the battleship Maine, taken from HaYan [ h4t6or is here erected to the manor let the officers and men. Of the, Maine. , EFseted to the memory of eeneTs : EhiIip Sheridan Is q bezutituI eat hese Is $ nonrnaAnt to Rough Rider
 Hhish is rough stone base-als
 EshAft with lettering thus: Tn memory
 Ed0eeAs&d members Of the U. S. volunte,
 Eeavalry. Spanish American war. Erects .tlby the members and friends of the rel E EEfmeIlt. ~cezseS- al -The sSpanist-Ameyican war nurse { monument Is quite odd-rough ston . large at the bottom running up to 6 point with cross of peculiar design { { Etdo with large letter across the cente | EsE S. A., erected by the. Society E ISpsnish-Amefiean War Nurses"
 fE There Is beautiful bronze memori ' lereeted by the Daughters of the, Confe [ Eef4ey as their tribute to the soldie | kof The south. q The last resting place of 1e5 men F t1s battieship Maine is marked by | t Maine anchor rescued from the bottc .. of Havana harbor. q < TEe Colonial Danes of America erect al haona1nent to the memory Of the st k, sdtaS and AaiIors in the Spanish+A AmeFic A waF in the name of all the women e tns DatiOao .st .g E y-sg ess'. ,-s-;ff4 -s = 'e5E Hhe remark Of man who visited ,- slhliIar place was @WsIl. sstsr. Sll. g SAEher De a. live coward than a de f 5 Read Stns ceisArsaeH poem by Eoics .r Theodore 0'Hara read by him in IS fa f,Si5afl7err.a 4l> 1,eAgeef iuartiai elaev