The Civil War and the Civil War

The home called arlington house sits just on this beautiful hill that just overlooks the nation's capital. It's owned by robertlee its, who marries into it and actually owns george washington's plates and silverware. But when the civil war breaks out, as things are getting really tense, robert lee is offered command of the entire union army. And he turns it down. He says, if i owned four millions of slaves in the south, i would sacrifice them all to the union. As soon as that happens, the taxes aren't paid, the federal government grabs the property. The first person buried there is not actually a not actually killed in battle.