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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…
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14th New York State Militia in the Maryland Campaign – Jim McLean
We will be kicking off our 2026 Civil War Lecture Series on Monday, June 1st, with historian James L. McLean, Jr., telling the unique story of the 14th New York State Militia (14th Brooklyn) and the regiment’s actions in the 1862 Maryland Campaign. The 14th New York State Militia, nicknamed the “14th Brooklyn,” “Brooklyn…