Located in Arlington, Virginia, the Arlington National cemetery and is home to veterans, presidents, and other honorable people like Matthew Henson who was the first person to reach the North Pole. The cemetery is made of 624 acres and consists of about 400,000 graves. Most graves are a white …show more content…
The first monument to be dedicated to unknown soldiers was the Civil War Monument. This monument was finished in 1866 and under it is a vault containing remains from 2,111 soldiers. These remains are not bodies, they are only pieces of bodies like skulls or a few bones. These remains were collected from the battle fields of Bull run and the route to Rappahanock. The monument can be found in section 26 of 70 in the Arlington cemetery and is engraved with a message reminding the visitors that although these bodies could not be identified, “their names and deaths are recorded in the archives of their country, and its grateful citizens honor them as their noble army of martyrs. May they rest in peace”