Front:
BENEATH THIS STONE
REPOSE 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 GRATEFUL CITIZENS
HONOR THEM AS OF THEIR NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS.MAY THEY REST IN PEACE!
SEPTEMBER. A.D. 1866.
Back:
Soldiers Monument, Arlington Cemetery.-This beautiful
monument was erected in 1866, in honor of over 2.000
Union and Confederate soldiers who fell in the battle of
Bull Run, where the Union forces were disastrously de-
feated by the Confederates.
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