150 Years Later, Civil War Sailors Get Arlington Burial : The Two-Way : NPR

150 Years Later, Civil War Sailors Get Arlington Burial : The Two-Way : NPR: More than 150 years after they died when their ship sank during a storm, two Union sailors from the Civil War will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday.

The sailors' remains were discovered in 2002 during efforts to recover the 150-ton gun turret of the USS Monitor — the United States' first ironclad warship — from the site of the wreck off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The Defense Department's attempts to identify the remains over the last decade (including bone, teeth and DNA analysis) haven't been conclusive.

Still, as Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has said: "These may very well be the last Navy personnel from the Civil War to be buried at Arlington."