Americans celebrating Irish heritage on St. Patrick’s Day can do so by toasting the legendary 69th Infantry Regiment. “The Fighting Irish” embody the spirit behind today’s parades and parties, with ...

We started by telling the story of El Batallón de San Patricio(“Saint Patrick’s Battalion”), aka the San Patricios, Irish immigrants to the United States who fought on the ...

and the war department turned to religious leaders to help recruit chaplains. New York City responded with the enlistment of Father Francis Duffy, who gained fame with the 69th New York Infantry ...

Mary Butler TD with Kieran Walsh, Ann Cusack and Thomas Francis Meagher (Paul Sheehan) He formed Company K of the New York 69th Infantry regiment during the American Civil War, fighting to abolish ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

At the young age of 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two ...

A New York Times reporter and photographer were the first Western journalists to visit central Khartoum since the civil war broke out two years ago. The scale of how much has been lost was ...

ALBANY — The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision as the “wildcat” strike by corrections officers ...

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief urged regional and international leaders Friday to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” into another civil war and speak with one voice ...

In the last few days we’ve heard what sound like the opening salvos of a Democratic Party civil war. After losing two ... Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.