General Grant National Memorial is the largest tomb in North America. Over a million people had attended Grant’s funeral parade, held in 1885 and which was seven miles long and featured Confederate and Union generals riding together in open victorias, U.S. President Grover Cleveland, his cabinet, all the Justices of the Supreme Court, and virtually the entire Congress. “As one by one withdraw the lofty actors From that great play on history’s stage eterne That lurid, partial act of War and peace—of old and new contending, Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense; All past—and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing, Victors and vanquish’d—Lincoln’s and Lee’s—now thou with them, Man of the mighty days—and equal to the days! Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein’d and hard has been thy part, To admiration has it been enacted!” by Walt Whitman ============================ A riddle relating to Grant’s Tomb, popularized by Groucho Marx on his game show You Bet Your Life, is “Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?” The proper answer is “nobody”—Grant and his wife are not buried