page_title: 69th Infantry Regiment (New York)
section_title: Other memorials and gravesites
hierarchical_section_title: 69th Infantry Regiment (New York) / Tributes / Other memorials and gravesites
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of monument to Francis P. Duffy, located in a small wedge of park at Times Square, New York City, where theatergoers gather to purchase discount theater tickets. Text on the obverse of this monument: LIUEUTENANT COLONEL FRANCIS P. DUFFY MAY 2 1871 - JUNE 26 1932 CATHOLIC PRIEST CHAPLAIN165TH U S INFANTRYOLD 69TH N Y A LIFE OF SERVICE FOR GOD AND COUNTRY SPANISH AMERICAN WAR NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD MEXICAN BORDER WORLD WAR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS LEGION D'HONNEUR CROIX DE GUERRE Reduced original image Image and image processing by User:Leonard G. Image skewed to correct camera viewpoint distortion. Distractive background decolorized by selecting only red channel and slightly blurred and statue slightly sharpened. Note that the cross and sculpture are shown in color, only the background has been forced to monochrome.
context_page_description: The 69th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army. It is from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard. It is known as the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth", a name said to have been given by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War. An Irish heritage unit, as the citation from poet Joyce Kilmer illustrates, this unit is also nicknamed the "Fighting Irish", immortalized in Joyce Kilmer's poem When the 69th Comes Home. Between 1917 and 1992 it was also designated as the 165th Infantry Regiment. It is headquartered at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan.
  The regiment currently consists of a single light infantry battalion and is part of the 27th Infantry Brigade of the 42nd Infantry Division. Its history dates back to 1849, when it was created as the 9th Regiment New York State Militia, and A Company, 1/69 can trace roots back to the American Revolution as one of several National Guard units with colonial roots. The regiment has seen combat in five wars: the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War.
context_section_description: Memorials to the Fighting 69th may be found at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and other Civil War battlefields.  Two memorials to the regiment and its dead as well as the graves of Colonels Mathew Murray, Michael Corcoran, Patrick Kelly, and Richard Byrnes may be found in Calvary Cemetery in Woodside Queens, NY.  A statue of Thomas Francis Meagher may be found in Helena, Montana, where he had later served as Governor.
  Joyce Kilmer and other men of the Sixty Ninth are interred at the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial in France.  Father Duffy is memorialized in a statue at the north end of Times Square, which is technically "Duffy Square".  World War II's Camp Kilmer was named for Sgt. Joyce Kilmer.  Colonel William Donovan is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
caption: Statue of Francis P. Duffy in Duffy Square, in Times Square, NYC
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