Major General Cyrus Bussey

Location:  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

This grave is magnificent, the kind that I could only hope to have one day.  It projects power, it projects immortality.  I particuliarly enjoy the cloth that just spills over onto the rest of the monument beneath the angel.

Bussey died in 1915 at the age of 81.  He lived a fairly accomplished life:  elected to the Iowa State Senate in 1858; he worked his way up in the ranks of the Army during the American Civil War, retiring as a Major General in 1865; in 1889 he became Assistant Secretary of the Interior and later opened up a law office in Washington, DC.