The term wave is often intuitively understood as referring to a transport of spatial disturbances that are generally not accompanied by a motion of the medium occupying this space as a whole. In a wave, the energy of a vibration is moving away from the source in the form of a disturbance within the surrounding medium (Hall 1980, p. 8).
The first soldier to be buried in Arlington was Private William Henry Christman of Pennsylvania on May 13, 1864. There are 396 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery, nine of whom are Canadian.
1 William Henry Christman, of the 67th Pennsylvania Infantry was the first service member buried at Arlington, May 13, 1864, Pvt. 2  William Blatt of the 49th Pennsylvania Infantry was the first service member interred there who died of wounds suffered in battle.3  Christman died from the measles shortly after enlisting. There are only two mausoleums at Arlington National Cemetery. 2  The first is for Thomas Crook Sullivan and members of his family in Section 1, and the other for the Nelson Appleton Miles family in Section 3. 3  The Confederate Section, Section 16, was authorized in 1900 by Congress.