This series of pages of the website are intended to be the largest collection on the internet, of images of men who served in the Irish Brigade. It is to honour their contribution to the Union war effort.
“Fought as they revelled, fast, firey & true”.
Images of Thomas Francis Meagher – first commander of the Irish Brigade (above)
Captain Thomas Meagher and Colonel Bagley; 69th New York Militia
Meagher as Captain of Co k 69th NYSM
Officers of the 69th New York State Milita (Col Corcoran far left, Thomas Francis Meagher centre behind artillery piece)
Robert Nugent (left), Thomas Francis Meagher (right)
Thomas Francis Meagher (left), Robert Nugent (right)
Colonel Robert Nugent – 69th New York State Volunteers & later commander of the Irish Brigade
Irish Brigade regimental commanding officers 1865 – Major S F Gould 4th NYHA, Col DF Burke 88th NYSV, Brev Brig Gen R Nugent, Lt Col JJ Smith 69th NYSV, Lt Col J Flemming 28th MA, Major WH Terwilliger 63rdNYSV.
Commanders of the Irish Brigade – (Top L-R Brig Gen Thomas Francis Meagher, Col Robert Nugent (69th NY), Col Richard Byrnes (28th MASS)
(Bottom L-R) Col Patrick Kelly (88th NY), Lt Col St Claire Mulholland (116th PENN), Brig Gen Thomas A Smyth (1st Delaware).
Captain John J Blake (69th & 88th NY)
Captain Garret Nagle (69th NY)
Captain Dennis L Sullivan (69th NY )
Captain John H Donovan (69th NY)
James McQuade
Lt Charles Clark (69th & 88th NY)
Lt Colonel James J. Smith (69th NY)
Captain Richard Moroney (69th NY)
Major James Cavanaugh (69th NY)
Lt Lawrence Cahill (69th NY)
Peter F Rafferty (69th NY)
Pvt George F Wright (69th NY)
Pvt John M Reynolds (69th NY)
Pvt Patrick H Coyle (69th NY)
Pvt Henry A. McGee
Father Thomas Oullett (69th NY)
69th New York soldiers at encampment
69th New York officers at the time of the Grand Review in 1865.