Montgomery Meigs, the quartermaster general of the United States, was responsible for, among other things, burials and bodies. His son was, in his view, murdered by Confederate troops after he had already surrendered, so Montgomery Meigs was extremely bitter about the South. Part of the reason, I think, that southerners were not even considered for inclusion in the national cemetery system is that he would hear none of it. He also was the leading voice in saying, “Let’s put a graveyard on the property of Robert E. Lee.”
