Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles

Location:  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Nelson Appleton Miles (Born August 8, 1839, Died May 15, 1986) was a veteran of the Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War from Boston.  During the Civil War he was wounded four times  in battle including being shot in the neck and abdomen at Chancellorsville, it is obvious that Miles was a real man's man with balls of steel.  He enlisted as a volunteer and worked his way up the ranks, eventually becoming a Lieutenant General during the Spanish American War.  He died at a circus of a heart attack.

I chose the grave because it was a large masoleum, and apparentley one of two masoleums in Arlington.  I'm a huge fan of mausoleums because of the power they project, an iron fist demand that history not forget you.