Walk Among History's Makers
90-minute historian-led tours through America's most historic cemetery complex — stories unavailable anywhere else.
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The First Union Regimental Monument south of the Mason-Dixon Line
Private Charles W. Needham is buried in Section A, Site 875, at the Alexandria National Cemetery. He suffered a fatal head injury during the Battle of Aldie, in a charge…
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"In gallantly defending his country": Robert Allison, Jr
"In gallantly defending his country": Robert Allison, Jr. and the price of September 5, 1814. At dawn on Monday, September 5, 1814, the Americans at...