Ordered to secure a stone wall on Marye’s Heights during the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, the Irish Brigade charged up hill under a fusillade of Confederate rifle and ...

On this day, September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln had a preliminary version of his Emancipation Proclamation delivered to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. This was five days ...

ENANDS, N.Y. -- A dozen veterans of the New York Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry spent a snowy Sunday morning, March 10 honoring Irish-American Civil War veterans buried at two ...

On Aug 20, 1861, the 80 Irishmen of F company Phillips Legion (known as the Lochrane Guards), a unit of the Confederate Army, boarded a Macon and Western railway train and rode into history. It was a ...

MENANDS, N.Y. (AP) – Members of the New York Army National Guard will pay tribute to New Yorkers who fought in the Union Army’s Irish Brigade during the Civil War. Soldiers in the 1st Battalion, 69th ...

Gettysburg (WHTM) It’s not the largest monument on the Gettysburg battlefield, but it catches the eye like few others. On Sickles Avenue in the southern part of the Gettysburg National Military Park, ...