Joseph Carleton – Colonel, United States Army

A veteran of the American Revolution, he was born in 1754 and died in 1812.

From 1783 to 1785 he served as the Acting Secretary of War.

He was originally buried in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery in Washington, D.C. and was reinterred in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery on November 13, 1907.

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