INSTINCT
McClellan Gate
Fort Myer, United States
<br>[<i>East face, top of the arch</i>:]<br> <br><center>McCLELLAN<br><br> Here rest 15,585 of the 315,555 citizens who died in defense of our country from 1861 to 1865.<br><br> "On fame's eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread,<br> And glory guards with solemn round, the bivouac of the dead."<br><br></center> <center>[<i>East face, middle south column</i>:]<br><br> MEIGS</center> <br><br> [<i>West face, top of the arch</i>:]<br><br> <center>"Rest on embalmed and sainted dead, dear as the blood ye gave, no impious footsteps here shall tread on the herbage of your grave."</center>