Record Data Place Unit Type Location or Site Containing Unit Arlington, VA Events Date Type 10/03/1864 Brevet Major John R. Meigs, son of General Meigs, is killed by guerillas in Virginia Battles/Soldiers 03/12/1862 Janet Delano, pioneer nursing administrator, is born near Montour Falls, New York Personal 05/13/1864 Private William Christman of Pennsylvania becomes the first soldier laid to rest in Arlington Cemetery Battles/Soldiers People Burial Place of Asboth, Alexander Sandor Augur, Christopher Columbus Ayres, Romeyn Beck Baird, Absalom Bartlett, Joseph Jackson Berdan, Hiram Burbridge, Stephen Gano Campbell, John Allen Candy, Charles Carroll, Samuel Sprigg Conrad, Joseph Crook, George Davidson, John Wynn DeWeese, John Thomas Doubleday, Abner Douglas, Adele Cutts Dyer, Alexander Brydie Edwards, John Getty, George Washington Gibbon, John Gregg, John Irvin Hammond, William Alexander Harlan, Mary Eunice Harney, William Selby Hatch, John Porter Hazen, William Babcock Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Kautz, August Valentine Kearny, Philip, Jr. Kelley, Benjamin Franklin Kellogg, William Pitt Lee, Elizabeth Blair Lee, Samuel Phillips Lincoln, Robert Todd Maish, Levi McMillan, James Winning Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham Miles, Nelson Appleton Mitchell, Robert Byington Mower, Joseph Anthony Paine, Halbert Eleazer Paul, Gabriel Rene Penrose, William Henry Porter, David Dixon Powell, John Wesley Pratt, Richard Henry Raum, Green Berry Rawlins, John Aaron Raymond, William H. Reynolds, Joseph Jones Rosecrans, William Starke Rousseau, Lovell Harrison Saxton, Rufus Schofield, John McAllister Sheridan, Philip Henry Sickles, Daniel Edgar Smith, Green Clay Smith, William Farrar Spencer, George Eliphaz Stone, Roy Sturgis, Samuel Davis Sypher, Jacob Hale Watkins, Louis Douglass West, Joseph Rodman Wheeler, Joseph Wilcox, Orlando Bolivar Wilkes, Charles Wright, Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Marcus Joseph Documents Images