Civil war sailors from USS Monitor buried at Arlington – in pictures

Civil War enthusiasts in period clothing attend the funeral service at Arlington national cemetery in Virginia Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Members of a US Navy ceremonial team carry the casket of one the two unknown sailors to their final resting place at Arlington Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Nearly 100 people from Maine to California who have a distant familial tie to the 16 Union sailors who died when the ship went down were invited to attend the funeral Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

Attempts have been made at reconstructing the faces of the two sailors. In total, 16 sailors were lost when the USS Monitor, the nation's first ironclad warship, sank December 31, 1862, in a storm off Cape Hatteras Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

The sailors were discovered in the Monitor's turret when it was recovered in 2002 Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

The sailors were buried with full military honours, including a horse-drawn caisson to transport the flag-draped coffins Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

A US navy ceremonial team attends the funeral service Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Members of the US navy ceremonial guard carry one of the two caskets to a hearse on the tarmac at Dulles airport on Thursday. The remains were transported from Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii, where they underwent identification attempts, before Friday's burial at Arlington Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Civil War enthusiast Sam Caldwell walks through Arlington national cemetery after the funeral Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images