American flags line Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, May 30, 2022, as President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrive for Memorial Day ceremonies. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, , in whose 639 acres the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars. The United States Department of the Army, a component of the United States Department of Defense (DoD),
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, , in whose 639 acres the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars. The United States Department of the Army, a component of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), controls the cemetery. Arlington National Cemetery East Entrance & The Women's Military Museum The national cemetery was established during the Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, previously the estate of Mary Anna Custis Lee, a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of Robert E. Lee. The Cemetery, along with Arlington House, Memorial Drive, the Hemicycle, and Arlington Memorial Bridge form the Arlington National Cemetery Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 2014. Officers of the 8th New York State Militia at Arlington House, June 1861 The Arlington Mansion, when it was known as Custis-Lee Mansion,seen with Union soldiers on its lawn on June 28, 1864
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