McClellan Gate Arlington National Cemetery

The McClellan Gate, also known as the McClellan Arch is a memorial to Major General George B. McClellan at Arlington National Cemetery. The gate was built in 1871.
Major General George B. McClellan was Commander of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.

The gate was built in 1871 and used to be the original entrance gate of Arlington National Cemetery.
On the east side at the top it says:
McCLELLAN
Here rest 15,585 of the 315,555 citizens who died in defense of our country from 1861 to 1865.
"On fame's eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round, the bivouac of the dead."
On the west side continues the poem written by Theodore O'Hara's 1847 "Bivouac of the Dead"
"Rest on embalmed and sainted dead,
dear as the blood ye gift,
no impious footsteps here shall tread on the herbage of your grave."

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar & Gio Theunissen
• Photos: Gio Theunissen