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206. And was used to bury Union war dead

When I first went to D.C. in '77 on a "D.C. Semester" program from USC, the Custis-Lee mansion was one of our first field trips. I ended up living near there for 16 years--shopping at the Ft. Myer PX and commissary, attending events there, visiting Arlington National Cemetery (and attending one interment of a friend there following his memorial service at a chapel on-post).

One of my Army Infantry OCS classmates was assigned to the Old Guard when he was commissioned, before he went to Vietnam. And the federal agency I worked for had its annual staff picnic at Ft. Myer once. (That was the time my young son, on being introduced to the head of my agency, told him he looked like Boss Hogg--and I suddenly saw my career flash before my eyes. )

Yet for all my time there, I suspect you're more up on the detailed history of that place.