Front:
BENEATH THIS STONE
SE THE BONES OF TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN UNKNOWN SOLDIERS
GATHERED AFTER THE WAR
FROM THE FIELDS OF BULL RUN, AND THE ROUTE TO THE RAPPAHANNOCK.
THEIR REMAINS COULD NOT BE IDENTIFIED, BUT THEIR NAMES AND DEATHS ARE
RECORDED IN THE ARCHIVES OF THEIR COUNTRY. AND ITS CRATEFUL CITIZENS
HONDTHEM AS OF THEIR NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS MAY THEY REST IN PEACE:
SEPTEMBER.A.D. 1866,
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. Monument to Unknown Dead.
pend
Printed in Gomaty.
Back:
National Cemetery."
"Arlington-U. S.Greatest
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No 2330,
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN,
MONUMENT TO UNKNOWN DEAD AT
ARLINGTON. Erected in 1866 to the memory of the
unnamed soldiers who gave up their lives at Bull Run and
other southern battlefields. Beneath this stone repose the
remains of two thousand one hundred soldiers, but the total
number of unknown dead buried at Arlington exceeds five
thousand.
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