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A fallen Union solider from the Civil War. Arlington had been the plantation of Gen. Robert E. Lee and he owed about 90.00 in back taxes. The government took the land because they required him to come home to pay the tax and he wouldn't leave his command. So, the first Civil War dead was buried in his front yard.

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