Civil War Unknowns Monument - Arlington National Cemetery - c 1900

Looking northeast at the western and southern facades of the Civil War Unknowns Monument, located on the grounds of Arlington House (the Robert E. Lee National Memorial) at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The image shows the monument circa 1900, after several changes were made to it. The Rodman guns were formerly mounted on caissons and pointed outward from each corner; now they are muzzle-down in the earth. The former simple lid has been removed, and a new lid modeled on the Ark of the Covenant (as described in the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible) has been added. The pyramid of artillery shot, which formerly sat on top of the lid, has been moved to the ground. Arlington House can be seen to the left, along with the South Slave Quarters. The dome-like structure in the flower garden behind the Civil War Unknowns Monument is the "Temple of Fame". This structure was erected in 1884 in the flower garden where an arbor used to be. Stone columns, pediments, and entablatures were saved from the U.S. Patent Office (which had suffered a serious fire several years earlier and was being demolished), and were used to construct the Temple of Fame. Th

Date

1900

Collection

Detroit Publishing Company

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

9,437 × 7,652 pixels

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