. >> so if we longley we see these tombstone's actually encircle the garden? >> yes. they don't go all the way around it but they form a border around part of the garden. i think there's something like at the end of the war something like 40 degrees of officers, and we don't know exactly what her thinking was, but i suspect he chose to bury officers here rather than privates and enlisted men because i would make it more difficult to remove them after the war was over because they were more prominent and better known. it was a strategic move on his part and proved effective because by the end of the war there were not only these but thousands of other graves at arlington and it made it difficult for the family to return. >> did the lee family attempt to return? >> they never attempted to return, but they wanted to get arlington back and they worked for years. robert e. lee after the war quietly met with lawyers in alexandria and discovered a way to get arlington back. mrs. lee, who was more vociferous about went to college after general lee blight and petitioned the co