Arlington - The Story of our Nation's Cemetery

Title: Arlington - The Story of our Nation's Cemetery
Author/Illustrator: Chris Demarest
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: 4th - 6th grade
                                                             
Summary:

This story is about the history of the nation's cemetery that is in Washington DC. It has more than 300,000 Americans who served in the United States Army. It is told through a third-person point of view and talks about how it started in the 1780s.  By the time the Civil War ended in 1865, 15,000 soldiers had been buried there. As the book progresses it talks about the process they have when they bury a soldier their now.

I would use this book after talking about the Civil War and about the burial service they do for the soldiers.