There’s an old joke that goes, “Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?” The answer, of course, is Grant. That is, Ulysses S. Grant, a Union general during the Civil War and then the 18th president of the United States.
Andrew Astley is a National Park Service ranger assigned to Grant’s Tomb in New York City, which is officially called the General Grant National Memorial.
Astley hears that joke all the time. But if you want to get technical, no one is actually buried there. Two sarcophagi are inside the building, on the lower level of the rotunda; one contains the remains of Grant and the other those of his wife, Julia Boggs Dent Grant….