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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. |