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Show The Steadfast Sixty.Ninth. The refusal of the Sixty.ninth New York regiment, which is mad? up entirely en-tirely of men of Irish birth and desceiu, to parade before Prince Louis of Bat-tenburg, Bat-tenburg, commander of a. British naval squadron, now visiting in this country, recalls a similar attitude of the men of the same regiment, who, previous to the outbreak-of the civil war, rtood linn against its selection an escort to the Prince of Wales the present king I of England when he was a guest of the city of New Yorfc . in 1S61. Colonel Michael Corcoran was . then j)) ehniniand of the Sixtj--nuith..'',Th- gallant. Corcoran, Cor-coran, who led his regiment oiT many a i hard-fought field jn the days of civil strife, was imprisoned for disobedience of orders, but was released on the outbreak out-break rf var. Tb ixtv-ninta fortiKd ii linpoi-tant'unjl Of Meagher's bm-' sds, and lost heviiy ia the many but-. tls that tmgaged the valor of the Iiisli soldlcre. Fuugh a Bauilagii. Here's to the succestvrs of the men of Meagher's brigade. Michigan Catholic. |