New York National Guard Veterans salute Irish Brigade Civil War Soldiers [Image 9 of 10]

MENANDS, AL, UNITED STATES

03.10.2019

Photo by Eric Durr 

New York National Guard

An American and Irish flag mark the grave of Pvt. Bernard Trainor a Soldiers in the 69th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War following a flag placing ceremony at at the Soldiers Lot in Albany Rural Cemetery on March 10, 2019. Trainor was wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 and sent to a hospital in Albany. He died in 1868. Veterans of the New York National Guard's 1st Battalion 69th Infantry who live in the Albany, N.Y.- area marked the graves of Irish-American Civil War Soldiers at Albany Rural Cemetery and St. Agnes Catholic Cemetery to acknowledge the link between their service and the 69th Infantry, which was historically an Irish-American unit and part of the Irisih Brigde during the war. ( U.S. Army National Guard photo by Eric Durr)

• Date Taken: 03.10.2019
• Date Posted: 03.11.2019 12:50
• Photo ID: 5167917
• VIRIN: 190310-O-EK423-1564
• Resolution: 2592x3872
• Size: 5.01 MB
• Location: MENANDS, AL, US