During the American Civil War, the Graveyard of the Atlantic took the lives of Colonel J.W. Allen and Surgeon Weller of the 9th N.J. Volunteers and the second mate of the Ann E. Thompson after Jan. 15, 1862. On Dec. 31, 1862, the USS Monitor was lost with N.K. Attwater, G. Frederickson, R.W. Hands, S.A. Lewis, W. Allen, W. Bryan, R. Cook, W.H. Eagan, J.R. Fenwick, R.H. Howard, T. Joyce, G. Littlefield, D. Moore, J. Nicklis, J. Stocking, and R. Williams, and the USS Rhode Island lost H. Logan and C.H. Smith. On Jan. 17, 1864, the 1st N.C. Infantry lost R.G. Casey, D.W. Farrow, J.J. Farrow, R.B. Farrow, and N.F. Jennette. More than 600 also perished in the losses of the Governor on Oct. 31, 1861, USS Bainbridge on Aug. 21, 1863, and General Lyon on Mar. 31, 1865. In the struggle of man against the sea, the USS Monitor, bound for Beaufort, North Carolina under tow by the USS Rhode Island, foundered in a gale sixteen miles off Cape Hatteras at about 1:30 a.m. on New Year's Eve 1862.