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Source: AP
Roundup
12-12-13

2 USS Monitor sailors to be interred at Arlington

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says the remains of two unknown Union sailors recovered from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery on March 8.


In an announcement Tuesday, Mabus said they could be the last Navy personnel from the Civil War buried at Arlington...

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