robert e. lee, the confederate general, so not only was it a convenient place to begin military burials from theo be a matter of justice, maybe even indication, if you want to call it that. the first material burials and the very first of those burials was a private from the 67 pennsylvania infantry, named william christman. he was a farmer. he was from a poor family and he came to serve in the union army. unfortunately, he ended up in hospital in washington. he got a case of german measles, which killed many, many service members on both sides of the war. he developed peritonitis from his measles infection, and he died in a washington hospital. was brought across the potomac river into arlington as the first military burial. things were so desperate at that time in the civil war, there were so many people dying, that there wasn't much time for ceremony or ritual at arlington. they would bring people over for burial day after day after day. and they went into the ground as william christman dead wi

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