Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Part I Disunion
1 Leaving Arlington 9
2 Occupation 22
3 "Vast Army of the Wounded" 37
4 First Burials 58
5 A Question of Ownership 76
Part II Reunion
6 "A Splendid Little War" 105
7 L'Enfant's Grand View 119
8 Known but to God 133
9 A Time to Build Up 160
10 "We Are All in It-All the Way" 176
11 The Nastiest Little War 194
Part III The Nation's Cemetery
12 "I Could Stay Here Forever" 209
13 The Last Unknown 230
14 War Comes to Arlington 251
15 Taps 263
Epilogue 269
Benediction 271
Acknowledgments 273
Appendix I Arlington Chronology 277
Appendix II Regulations for Burial 287
Notes and Sources 289
Index 343