than bite from battle wounds most you see in this section of the cemetery are in that category william wesbury def may come 1864. arlington saturday was not established until a month later, june of 1864. it was officially designated as the national cemetery and it began to fill up very quickly. this part of the cemetery that we are in, section 727 was called the lower cemetery. as you can see it is at the edge of arlington. there is a road just outside of the cemetery. you can't see the mansion from this location and that is the way the officers who were living and working in the mansion during the war wanted it. they didn't want to see the terri hail coming in. they didn't want to be in a graveyard working in a graveyard. they wanted them out of sight and out of mind. the quartermaster general brigadier general montgomery max didn't like that idea. as a matter of fact, he didn't have much use for robert e. lee. they served together in the union army. max considered him a traitor and thought he should be hanged for his desertion of the union army and his leadership of the army of northern virg