David Blight: The Civil War in American memory
A hearse carries the casket of one of two unknown sailors who were killed in 1862 when the ironclad USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina during the Civil war to their final resting place at a funeral service at Arlington National Cemetery on March 8, 2013 in Arlington, Virgina. The sailors' remains, recovered when a portion of the ship was raised eleven years ago, were buried with full military honors.
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