- Joined
- Jan 7, 2013
- Location
- Long Island, NY
On a rainy day in December I visited the monument erected by the veterans of the most famous Irish American regiment of the Civil War, the Fighting 69th (69th NYVI) at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, N.Y.C. Although the cemetery is a Catholic institution, during the Civil War, the City of New York bought a small plot within it to bury Irish Catholic soldiers. 21 Civil War soldiers are buried on the plot and a large monument to those who served in the war is behind the 69th monument. You can see the obelisk from the city monument in the background.