Karen Durham-Aguilera, executive director, Office of Army Cemeteries and Army National Military Cemeteries, speaks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopening of Ord and Weitzel Gate at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Nov. 8, 2022. Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers, Maverick Regan Construction, Lorton Stone, WSP and Speweik Preservation Consultants undertook an extensive multi-year effort to restore the gate and its signature columns, topped with elaborately sculpted urns. In 1879, Maj. Gen. Montgomery Meigs (who
Karen Durham-Aguilera, executive director, Office of Army Cemeteries and Army National Military Cemeteries, speaks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopening of Ord and Weitzel Gate at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Nov. 8, 2022. Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers, Maverick Regan Construction, Lorton Stone, WSP and Speweik Preservation Consultants undertook an extensive multi-year effort to restore the gate and its signature columns, topped with elaborately sculpted urns. In 1879, Maj. Gen. Montgomery Meigs (who directed the establishment of ANC as Quartermaster General of the Army during the Civil War) oversaw and designed the Ord and Weitzel Gate. Meigs requested to reuse two columns from the War Department Building in Washington, , completed in 1820 and demolished in 1879. The original gate featured elaborate ironwork and connected to the north boundary wall of the cemetery. In 1902, the names of prominent Civil War Army officers Gen. Edward Ord and Gen. Godfrey Weitzel were inscribed into the columns. However, due to the cemetery’s expansion and the advent of modern vehicles – many of which were wider than the gate’s original clearance – ANC disassembled the gate in 1979 and stored its components on cemetery grounds.
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