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Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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William H. Hope to Robert E. Lee, 1866-04-10

 Item — Box 7A, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents

Hope, a real estate lawyer in Virginia, wishes to assist Lee in recovering his Arlington estate. He includes a newspaper annnouncing that Union soldiers killed at numnerous wartime battlefields would be reinterred at Arlington and that a memorial would be placed there in their honor.

Dates: 1866-04-10