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The 69th Regiment's monument records the service of Meagher's Irish Brigade and the Corcoran Legion in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 across battles and campaigns including Blackburn’s Ford, Bull’s Run, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Sailors Creek, Farmville, and Appomattox Court House, and it also honors Corcoran Legion Veteran Corps Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Healy, Surgeon Major Thomas Maguire, and veterans buried there: James Breslin, John Connan, Hugh J. Morrisey, Captain Francis G. Hewson, Michael Doran, Robert Heggart, John Powers, and Charles J. Kelly, with the cornerstone laid on May 30, 1920 by Captain Hugh Fitzpatrick and Patrick F. Solan as architect, and the dedication held on November 29, 1920 with Patrick M. Haran as sculptor. It further traces the later service of the 165th U.S. Infantry, the old 69th Regiment, in France during the First World War in the Luneville, Baccarat, Esarance Souain, Champagne Marne, Aisne Marne, Saint Mihiel, Esseyand Pannes, and Meuse-Argonne operations; in the Second World War in Hawaii, Makin, Saipan, Okinawa, and the occupation of Japan; and by the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry in Iraq from September 2004 to September 2005.
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