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(71st) Seventy-first New York Volunteers / Park Avenue Armory (1904–1906) 7 – Park Avenue (between East 33rd and East 34th streets), Midtown South (42nd) Forty-Second Division / West 14th Street Armory (1971) 5 – 125 West 14th Street (between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue), Chelsea
What is now the 7th New York Militia Regiment (nicknamed the "Silk Stocking Regiment" because of its members' affluence [10] [129]) was established in 1806 [130] [131] as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th companies. [132] The battalion was renamed several times before becoming the 7th Regiment of Infantry, New York State Militia, in 1847.
Grand Army Plaza (formerly Fifth Avenue Plaza and Central Park Plaza) is a public square at the southeast corner of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South (59th Street). It consists of two rectangular plots on the west side of Fifth Avenue between 58th and 60th streets.
The First Battery Armory is at 56 West 66th Street, in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. [2] [3] The building occupies the southern sidewalk of 66th Street between Central Park West to the east and Columbus Avenue to the west. [4]
The New York Times stated in 2004 that "Fifty-ninth Street stretches across Manhattan like a belt, with Central Park South as its fancy buckle." [ 1 ] As with numbered streets in Manhattan , Fifth Avenue separates 59th Street into "east" and "west" sections.
180th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment: Failed to complete organization. Recruits were transferred to the 179th New York Volunteer Infantry on February 21, 1865, as Company G. 181st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment: Failed to complete organization. 182nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment: 183rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 14th Regiment of the New York State Militia, organized in the 1840s, [3] [4] was the United States' most active state militia by the late 19th century. [5] Nicknamed the "Fighting Fourteenth" and the "Red-Legged Devils", [4] [6] the 14th Regiment participated in numerous battles during the American Civil War. [7]
In Washington during the Civil War NCO and enlisted men of the 71st. The 71st New York Infantry Regiment is an organization of the New York State Guard.Formerly, the 71st Infantry was a regiment of the New York State Militia and then the Army National Guard from 1850 to 1993.