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.
There are 57 Buffalo Soldiers interred at the Alexandria National Cemetery. They represent the following units: 24th Infantry, 10th Calvary, and the 9th Calvary and are interred in Sections A, B, C, and R. Former congressman Gillis W. Long, who died on January 19, 1985, is buried in Section B, Grave 1610-B. Major Jacob Brown, for whom Fort Brown, Texas, was named, is buried in Section B, Grave 1. He died from wounds received during a skirmish with Mexican soldiers in 1846.