1 adj If something is unusual, it does not happen very often or you do not see it or hear it very often. They have replanted many areas with rare and unusual plants..., To be appreciated as a parent is quite unusual.
Within two months 2,500 Soldiers had been buried at Arlington and by the warâs end a year later, more than 5,000 men had been interred there. The number mounted as bodies were collected and moved to the cemetery from temporary graves. Of all the Civil War dead buried in Arlington Cemetery, about 4,000 are unknown.
1 William Henry Christman, of the 67th Pennsylvania Infantry was the first service member buried at Arlington, May 13, 1864, Pvt. 2  William Blatt of the 49th Pennsylvania Infantry was the first service member interred there who died of wounds suffered in battle.3  Christman died from the measles shortly after enlisting. There are only two mausoleums at Arlington National Cemetery. 2  The first is for Thomas Crook Sullivan and members of his family in Section 1, and the other for the Nelson Appleton Miles family in Section 3. 3  The Confederate Section, Section 16, was authorized in 1900 by Congress.