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.
Over 150 Years of Arlington National Cemetery. In May 1864, one month prior to its establishment as a national cemetery, the first military burials took place at Arlington National Cemetery. The four burials took place in Section 27, the oldest section of the cemetery: Pvt.