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Thread #145220 Message #3358746
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
03-Jun-12 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Two Soldiers / The Last Fierce Charge
Subject: RE: Origins: Two Soldiers / The Last Fierce Charge
From the New York Herald (New York, New York) on July 22, 1861:
"...the men of the Sixty-ninth stripped to the skin, except pants, and pitched into the fight regardless of fatigue or personal safety." (That being the Sixty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteers, of the Irish Brigade.)