The cemetery also has the Henderson family plot.
GENERAL ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, the 5th Commandant of the USMC. Near his grave is that of his son OCTAVIUS who enetered Confederate service from VMI. He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas where his VMI ring was shot off. It was returned to him 32 years later.
JAMES BERRET, was the mayor of Washington, DC, in 1861 when Congress passed a law for all public officials to take the Oath of Allegiance. Berret refused, saying he had already taken one when he became mayor.
The Army arrested him for complicity and he was jailed in New York. His house was thoroughly searched and nothing was found showing connections to the Confederacy, causing him to be released. Berret returned to DC and resigned.
William Smoot and David Herold Coming Up. --Old B-Runner
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