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Arlington Cemetery; Montgomery Meigs
The casket-like structure is the tomb of Montgomery Meigs, quartermaster of the United States during the Civil War (the man who made sure that supplies and such made it to all the troops), who later went on to design the pension building that became the National Building Museum. During the Civil War, he had been the person who converted Robert E Lee's estate into a Union graveyard. The gravesite also includes his wife as well as his son John who was killed by Confederate soldiers near Harrisonburg Virginia in October, 1864. |