The U.S. Navy announced on February 12th, 2013 that the remains of two sailors found in the turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on March 8th. The turret was recovered from the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast in 2002 and is at the USS [...]
150 Years Ago in the Civil War After a very active December and January, the armies took time out in February 1863 to reorganize and rest before resuming active campaigning in the spring. Land action was limited to relatively minor skirmishing and fighting between small units of soldiers and cavalry from Virginia to Indian Territory, [...]
The Union Navy’s USS Hatteras was in the news 150 years after it was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico by the CSS Alabama on January 11th, 1863. A scientific expedition consisting of researchers from several national and state agencies, plus other organizations used sonar to draw a three dimensional picture of the wreck as [...]
