VA -- Arlington Natl Cemetery -- Confederate Memorial:
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ARLCON_971102_01.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Confederate section
In 1906, Congress authorized the construction of a Confederate memorial. The central bronze memorial was done by Moses Ezekiel, a Southern veteran of the Battle of New Market, who had also designed "Virginia Mourns Her Dead" at VMI in Lexington Virginia. The section was dedicated in 1914 on the birthday of Jefferson Davis.
The Confederate section includes 409 Confederate soldiers who were reinterred here around Jackson Circle (yep, after Stonewall Jackson) from other places in the cemetery. Enemy soldiers who died in military hospitals were buried in military graves.
The gravestones themselves are slightly different than the standard ones, having a slightly pointed top. Legend has it that this was to keep Union soldiers from sitting on them.
ARLCON_971102_02.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Walter Reed, William Rosecrans
The memorial in front is to Walter Reed, the Army pathologist and bacteriologist who demonstrated the role of the mosquito as carrier of the yellow fever.
In the row behind Reed is a memorial to William Rosecrans who led the Union Forces at Rich Mountain and Stone's River. He blundered at Chickamauga and Rosecrans was replaced while he army was getting surrounded at Chattanooga.
ARLCON_971102_03.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Daniel Sickles
Here's Daniel Sickles' grave. He had made a name for himself by killing the lover of his wife, who happened to be Francis Scott Key's son. He later became a corps commander in the Civil War and caused a major crisis at the battle of Gettysburg by moving his men ahead of Cemetery Ridge and placing them in the Devil's Den and wheatfield.
ARLCON_971102_04.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee
Here are the graves of Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee, two astronauts who died when the Apollo 1 capsule lit up on fire on 1967.
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