A monument to the Irish Brigade at Antietam battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland was dedicated in October of 1997. Irish Brigade reenactors were joined by other units from the 69th New York, along with ...

Owing to the want of facilities for reaching the grounds of the romantic and hitherte rather secluded site of the National Cemetery at Antietam, there has been some doubt as to the dedication ...

Irish have the last word at Antietam, site of the Civil War’s deadliest day In the Battle of Antietam, which took place 154 years ago this weekend, over 26,000 soldiers were left dead, wounded ...

On This Day: The Irish Brigade suffered 60% casualties at the Battle of Antietam On September 17, 1862, some 22,000 soldiers, many of them members of the Irish Brigade, died during the Battle of ...

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest of the Civil War and more Americans fell on September 17th, 1862, than on any other day in the military history of the US. Not surprisingly the Irish were ...

SHARPSBURG — Among the 4,776 Civil War Union dead buried at Antietam National Cemetery are 1,836 whose names will never be known. They are buried in graves marked only by a number, often ...

When it comes to the Irish and the U.S. civil war, one of the first things that comes to my mind are the draft riots of 1863 in New York City. Many of the rioters were laborers who were Irish ...

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 Albany, N.Y ...

SHARPSBURG -- The steady blast of cold March wind Saturday didn't daunt a dozen people from trekking across the sunken road and rolling fields where Irish soldiers fought on Sept.

SHARPSBURG, MD. — Cutting through a cornfield where soldiers were literally blown to bits on the bloodiest day of the Civil War, a hiker spied something near a groundhog hole: fragments of bone ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. -- It was a foggy morning on Sept. 17, 1862, when two armies, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of the Potomac commanded by Gen ...

The Carrollton Manor Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution held their January meeting at Edenton Retirement Community with guest speaker Kathi Donatucci who spoke about the National ...