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Picture and Poetry at the Bloody Lane: 61st/64th New York Infantry – Jim Smith
“It was a picture—it was poetry.” So observed an Irish Brigade lieutenant who witnessed the advance of the 61st and 64th New York against the Bloody Lane on September 17, 1862. The combined regiments fought up and down the lane under the command of two Civil War luminaries—Harvard valedictorian Francis Channing Barlow and future…