When the Irish Brigade leads the 174th St. Patrick’s Day Parade at ... submitted a poem in response to Day’s editorial “about his now immortalized countrymen of the 69th Irish Regiment.” The Sun ...

the legendary “Fighting 69th,” i.e., Meagher’s Irish Brigade of the American Civil War. The Meagher in question was Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher (August 3, 1823-July 1 ...