In 1901 Confederate war dead from cemeteries in Arlington, Virginia and Washington, D.C. were re-interred in Arlington National Cemetery and soon after the United Daughters of the Confederacy petitioned to add a memorial to this area of the cemetery.…
In front of the Engineering Building on the east side of the parade ground resides the memorial to the cadets who died in the fighting at the Battle of New Market in 1864. Moses Ezekiel’s statue of Virginia Mourning Her Dead; Ezekiel was himself a…