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The 69th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.It is from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard.It is known as the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth", [1] a name said to have been given by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War.
There were three core regiments of the Irish Brigade, the 69th, 88th, and the 63rd. The 69th New York Volunteers, was largely made up of the pre-war 69th New York Militia, a unit which first gained notoriety prior to the Civil War, when Colonel Michael Corcoran refused an order to parade the regiment for the Prince of Wales during the latter's ...
Nugent was brevetted Brigadier General for distinguished leadership of the 69th Regiment on March 13, 1865. The veterans of the Irish Brigade were honorably discharged and mustered out three months later; Nugent remained in the regular US Army for the next twenty years and was a formidable "Indian fighter" during the Great Plains Wars with the 13th and 24th Infantry Regiments.
Officers of the 69th New York Volunteer Regiment pose with a cannon at Fort Corcoran in 1861. Michael Corcoran at left. With the outbreak of war, the court martial was dropped and Corcoran was restored to his command because he had been instrumental in bringing other Irish immigrants to the Union cause.
The New York Volunteers, also known as the New York Companies and 1st Dutchess County Company, was a British Loyalist Provincial regiment, which served with the British Army, during American Revolutionary War. Eventually, the New York Volunteers became the 3rd American Regiment, after being place on American establishment.
One of his ads in the New York Daily Tribune read: "One hundred young Irishman—healthy, intelligent and active—wanted at once to form a Company under command of Thomas Francis Meagher." [51] On April 29, his recruits were enlisted as Company K of the 69th Infantry Regiment of the New York State Militia (the "Fighting 69th"). [48]
Duffy served as chaplain for the 69th Infantry Regiment (known as the "Fighting 69th"), a unit of the New York Army National Guard largely drawn from the city's Irish-American population. [2] He served in the Spanish–American War (1898), but it is his service on the Western Front in France during World War I (1917–1918) for which he is best ...
O'Connell spent some time in the U.S. Army, serving with the 69th Infantry Regiment (New York) between 1912 and 1914. [1] He returned to Ireland in 1914 and joined the Irish Volunteers, becoming Chief of Inspection in 1915. [1]