FILE –This 1862 photo provided by The Mariners' Museum shows crew sitting on the deck of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Wednesday, March 6, 2013, the remains of two of the 16 crewmen, who died when the Union vessel sank off North Carolina 150 years ago, will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. They will not lack for mourners as dozens of people with suspected or known family ties to those who died are traveling from around the nation to attend. The revolving gun turret now being conserved at The Mariners' Museum can be seen in the background. (AP Photo/The Mariners' Museum)
Friday's ceremony will include Monitor kin who believe the two Union sailors are their ancestors. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is scheduled to speak.
Sixteen sailors died when the Monitor went down in rough seas off North Carolina in 1862. The two crew members' skeletons and the remains of their uniforms were found in 2002 when the ship's rusted turret was raised from the ocean floor.
The Monitor made nautical history when it fought in the first battle between two ironclads on March 9, 1862. The battle with the CSS Virginia was a draw.
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