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'The Fighting 69th' at 150
The regiment that Robert E. Lee christened is going strong at 150
PART 1 IN A TWO-PART SERIES
By Lt. Col. Kenneth H. Powers, NYARNG (Ret.)
The year 2001 is not only the first of the third millennium, it also marks the sesquicentennial of the 69th Regiment of New York, which will be celebrated at a dinner in its Armory on October 13. Originally the Second Regiment of Irish Volunteers, it was accepted as part of the New York State Militia and designated as the Sixty-Ninth Regiment on October 12, 1851.
Read the rest of this 2 part article HERE.
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'You Have Got Your Chance at Last':
THE IRISH AT FIRST MANASSAS
The First Battle of Bull Run, or First Manassas, as Southerners named it, unleashed four years of war on a scale never before scene on the American continent. For most of the Irish, who, typically enough, volunteered in large numbers for both armies, it was to be a baptism of fire.
Read about the 69th New York at 1st Manassas
, and our coverage of the 140th anniversay reenactment of the battle HERE.
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"The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns,":
The Battle of Bull Run
WGT presents five-part series drawn from the book "The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns," by Tipperary native David P. Conyngham, published in 1866. Conyngham served during the Civil War, for a time with Meagher's Irish Brigade, and finally as a correspondent for the New York Herald.
Read part one HERE.
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The Deadliest Day:
The Irish Brigade at Bloody Lane, September 17, 1862
By Joseph E. Gannon
WGT Managing Editor
By the village of Sharpsburg, Maryland, there is a meandering creek called Antietam. On September 17th, 1862, that little town and lazy creek were witness to a great Civil War battle. In the South it was called the Battle of Sharpsburg, in the North they called it the Battle of Antietam; by either name it remains the bloodiest single day in U.S. history.
Read about the rest of the battle, and our coverage of the 140th anniversary reenactment of it, HERE.
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'Gallowglass' at Antietam: The Irish Brigade's Fight
James Turner, who used the nom de plume Gallowglass, was an attorney from Jersey City, N.J. It was as a lieutenant in the 88th that he would gain fame writing of the brigade's exploits for The Irish American under the pen name of "Gallowglass." Read his account of the Brigade's desperate fight at Antietam here.
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Soldiers of the Are Honored at Antietam
by Joseph E. Gannon
Our coverage of the moving unveiling of the Irish Brigade Monument at Antietam Battlefield in 1997. It was the last monument that will ever be placed on the field.
Read our report HERE.
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'Undaunted Courage': The Irish at Fredericksburg
by Joseph E. Gannon
In 1862, the second year of America's Civil War, Meagher's Irish Brigade made two of the most gallant charges in American history, crashing bloodily against a Confederate strongpoint at Antietam's "Bloody Lane" and, 87 days later, attacking Confederates, many Irish, behind Fredericksburg's "Stone Wall." WGT is proud to present the story of the Irish at Fredericksburg in a three-part series.
Read part one HERE.
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Remembering the Irish Who Fell at Fredericksburg
On December 13, 1997, in stark contrast to New Yorkers' more usual Yuletide shopping, merriment and errands, 24 stalwarts braved blustery winds and near-freezing temperatures to recall the Irish slain or wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg 135 years earlier.
Read the story of this commemoration HERE.
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Special Report: The Irish Battle at Gettysburg
Irish soldiers played an immense part in the epic fighting that changed the course of American history. WGT looks at the many Irish connections to the battle, and how Irish America marked their story at the battle's 135th anniversary reenactment. Read our full coverage HERE.
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The Irish Brigade's Fifth Regiment:
The 116th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
By David Kincaid
In the spring of 1862, a call was made by the Federal government for more troops. The Civil War had been in progress for more than a year, and the 116th Pennsylvania, recruited principally from Philadelphia, was one of the regiments then authorized. Tipperary-born Dennis Heenan, a man of years of prewar militia experience, had served as Lt. Col. of the Irish 24th Pennsylvania in the early months of the war, and was chosen as the One-sixteenth's Colonel. Shortly they would join the storied Irish Brigade.
Read this regiment's full story HERE.
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COLORFUL AND GALLANT: General Michael Corcoran
By John J. Concannon
A policeman in Ireland, Michael Corcoran became a symbol of what an Irishman -- and a Fenian -- could make of himself in the New World. Read the story of his gallant but tragic figure here.
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"Meagher of the Sword"
By Joseph E. Gannon
WGT Managing Editor
THOMAS Francis Meagher as an Irish nationalist, captain in the 69th New York State Militia at 1st Manassas, Civil War general, and first commander of the famous Irish Brigade. Read a brief biography of this legendary figure of the mid-19th Century here.
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Christmas in the Union's Irish Brigades
by Kevin O'Beirne.
Perhaps one of the best examples of how religion and the Celtic fondness for revelry and merriment blended together during the Civil War years is the manner in which Irish in the Union Army observed the holiest day of the year -- Christmas. Fortunately, copious accounts of the first two Christmases of the war are available and offer an interesting view of how Irishmen in blue celebrated the birth of Christ.. Read WGT contributing editor Kevin O'Beirne's look back at how the Irish celebrated in the Irish Brigade and in Corcoran's Legion as well, HERE.
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