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O Cemitério Nacional de Arlington, em Arlington, Virgínia, é o mais conhecido e tradicional cemitério militar dos Estados Unidos, fundado no antigo terreno de Arlington House, o palácio da família da esposa do comandante das forças confederadas da Guerra Civil Americana, General Robert Lee, Mary Anna Lee, descendente da mulher ...
- 624 acres (252,5 hectares)
- Estados Unidos
- Arlington (en)Estados Unidos
- Público
Arlington National Cemetery is one of two cemeteries in the United States National Cemetery System that are maintained by the United States Army. Nearly 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington County, Virginia .
O Cemitério Nacional de Arlington, em Arlington, Virgínia, é o mais conhecido e tradicional cemitério militar dos Estados Unidos, fundado no antigo terreno de Arlington House, o palácio da família da esposa do comandante das forças confederadas da Guerra Civil Americana, General Robert Lee, Mary Anna Lee, descendente da mulher de George ...
- Spanish–American War Dead at Arlington National Cemetery
- First Spanish–American War Memorial
- The Second Spanish–American War Memorial
- About The Memorial
- Memorial Record Book
- Bibliography
- External Links
The Spanish–American War was a ten-week conflict that occurred in the spring and summer of 1898. Cuba had been waging a war of independence against Spain since 1895, an effort largely supported by the United States (which had extensive economic interests on the island). To ensure the safety of American citizens and property in Cuba, the United Stat...
Some time in early 1900, four guns captured during the war were erected in the Spanish–American War dead burial field. The two modern guns were taken from the Spanish Navy armored cruisers Vizcaya and Infanta Maria Teresa. The provenance of the two smaller bronze cannon is less clear. One newspaper of the day said they came from a Spanish coastal b...
The Capron effort
In February or March 1899, as Sections 21, 22, and 23 were being prepared for the burial of Spanish–American War dead, Secretary of War Elihu Root chose a promontory on the eastern edge of the burial field as the site for a new Spanish–American War memorial. Veterans of the war strongly supported the construction of a memorial, but no action was taken. Agnes Kissam Capron, wife of Captain Allyn K. Capron, Sr. (an Army artillery officer who died of typhoid fever in September 1898), began lobby...
National Society of Colonial Dames effort
At its April 1900 National Council meeting in Washington, D.C., the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America voted to seek to place a memorial to Spanish–American War dead at Arlington National Cemetery. The genesis of this effort is unclear, but a committee to consider "the subject of a tablet at Arlington in memory of the officers, soldiers, and sailors of the Spanish–American War" was appointed some time prior to the biennial National Council meeting. Winifred Lee Brent Lyster, wi...
Fundraising, design, and site selection
Lyster was appointed chair of the society's Spanish War Memorial Committee. She wrote more than 2,000 letters asking for funds for the memorial.Almost $7,300 ($257,072 in 2023 dollars) was raised. Choosing a site for the memorial was not difficult. The Army Quartermaster Corps controlled Arlington National Cemetery, and in March 1901 Lyster asked the Quartermaster General, Brigadier General Marshall I. Ludington, for permission to erect the memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Permission...
The Spanish–American War Memorial consists of a column of gray granite 54 feet (16 m) high quarried in Barre, Vermont. Atop the column is a bronze eagle with outstretched wings, facing west. The eagle is mounted on a granite globe, which was quarried in Quincy, Massachusetts. A band decorated with 13 stars (representing the original Thirteen Coloni...
When the Spanish War Memorial Committee's Committee on Estimates and Designs considered the nature of the memorial, it quickly realized that the number of dead was too numerous to list their names on a tablet. A memorial book listing the names of the dead was more appropriate, so the Spanish War Memorial Committee established a second subcommittee,...
Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900. Reports of the Chiefs of Bureaus. Volume 2, Parts 1-8. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900.Bigler, Philip. In Honored Glory: Arlington National Cemetery, the Final Post. Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press, 1999.Dyal, Donald H; Carpenter, Brian B.; and Thomas, Mark A. Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.Federal Writers' Project. Washington, City and Capital. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937.Túmulo do Soldado Desconhecido (Arlington) O Túmulo do Soldado Desconhecido é um monumento histórico dedicado aos militares americanos falecidos, cujos restos mortais não foram identificados. Ele está localizado no Cemitério Nacional de Arlington, na Virgínia, Estados Unidos.
Cemitério Nacional de Arlington. Arlington House. Túmulo do Soldado Desconhecido (Arlington) Categorias: Cemitérios da Virgínia. Cemitérios nacionais dos Estados Unidos.
The Official Website of Arlington National Cemetery. Welcome to Arlington National Cemetery, our Nation's most hallowed ground. This historic cemetery bears witness to our American heritage and the military service and sacrifice of men and women in uniform throughout our history.
