<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery" id="mwww" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Arlington National Cemetery">Arlington National Cemetery</a> is established when <span about="#mwt42" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"convert","href":"./Template:Convert"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"200"},"2":{"wt":"acre"},"3":{"wt":"km2"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwxA" typeof="mw:Transclusion">200 acres (0.81</span><span about="#mwt42" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><span about="#mwt42">km</span><sup about="#mwt42">2</sup><span about="#mwt42">)</span> of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by the family of Confederate General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" id="mwxQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a>) are officially set aside as a military <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery" id="mwxg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cemetery">cemetery</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War" id="mwxw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Secretary of War">U.S. Secretary of War</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_M._Stanton" id="mwyA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edwin M. Stanton">Edwin M. Stanton</a>.<sup about="#mwt49" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_15#cite_note-7" id="mwyQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwyg">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt43" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFO'Harrow2016">O'Harrow, Robert Jr. (2016). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=a2c6DwAAQBAJ" id="mwBuQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBuU">The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army</i></a>. New York: Simon &amp; Schuster. pp.<span id="mwBuY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>206–207, 282. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBuc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBug" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781451671926" id="mwBuk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781451671926"><bdi id="mwBuo">9781451671926</bdi></a></cite><span about="#mwt43" class="Z3988" id="mwBus" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Quartermaster%3A+Montgomery+C.+Meigs%2C+Lincoln%27s+General%2C+Master+Builder+of+the+Union+Army&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=206-207%2C+282&amp;rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=9781451671926&amp;rft.aulast=O%27Harrow&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+Jr.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Da2c6DwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+15"></span>; <link about="#mwt46" data-mw='{"name":"templatestyles","attrs":{"src":"Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"},"body":{"extsrc":""},"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"cite book","href":"./Template:Cite_book"},"params":{"last":{"wt":"Poole"},"first":{"wt":"Robert M."},"title":{"wt":"On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery"},"location":{"wt":"New York"},"publisher":{"wt":"Bloomsbury Publishing USA"},"date":{"wt":"2010"},"isbn":{"wt":"9780802715494"},"url":{"wt":"https://books.google.com/books?id=ec-mCAAAQBAJ"},"page":{"wt":"281"}},"i":0}}]}' href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403" id="mwBuw" rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion"/><cite about="#mwt46" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPoole2010">Poole, Robert M. (2010). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ec-mCAAAQBAJ" id="mwBu0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBu4">On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery</i></a>. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p.<span id="mwBu8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>281. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBvA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBvE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780802715494" id="mwBvI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780802715494"><bdi id="mwBvM">9780802715494</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt46" class="Z3988" id="mwBvQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=On+Hallowed+Ground%3A+The+Story+of+Arlington+National+Cemetery&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=281&amp;rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Publishing+USA&amp;rft.date=2010&amp;rft.isbn=9780802715494&amp;rft.aulast=Poole&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+M.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dec-mCAAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+15"></span></span>