My guess would be no, he would not want to have been buried there after the house grounds had been converted to a cemetery. Members of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery were the first ones buried in Arlington close enough to the house to render it uninhabitable. Lee is buried in the family vault in Lexington, Virginia at Lee's Chapel in Washington and Lee University. It is a beautiful chapel. I used to visit it every year when I was a Virginia resident.
After the war, the federal government did reimburse the Lee family a pittance for the land they stole.
Bill
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"Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words."
King John 2.1.466
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