Arlington National Cemetary WI

In 1882, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of General Lee's son, saying that the US Government was squatting on the Lee Family land.

Now George Washington Custis Lee then turned around and sold the property to the US Government.

What if, instead of selling, he demands rent or orders the Government to vacate the property?
 
I'd guess he gets a lot of negative publicity about still being a traitor at heart... and the Federal Government might just pull out and dare him to dig up thousands of soldiers' graves.
 
I'd guess he gets a lot of negative publicity about still being a traitor at heart... and the Federal Government might just pull out and dare him to dig up thousands of soldiers' graves.

Yes. If he really wanted to be a bastard about it, he COULD dig them up...and sell them to a fertilizer company. A lot of Civil War battlefields were mined for bones to be ground up as fertilizer after the war. :eek:
 
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