According to today's (Sunday, March 26) NYC NEWSDAY, "Towering 50 feet above 
the tombstones around it, a granite obelisk marks the spot in Calvary Cemetery 
where New York's Civil War soldiers were buried even as the war raged on."

NEWSDAY continues, "The column is the centerpiece of a once-proud monument 
commissioned by New York City in 1866. It is believed to be the city's earliest 
Civil War memorial. Sadly, it's also one of its most decayed.  Dedicated to 
the Irish Brigade, a group of predominantly Irish soldiers who sustained 
catastrophic losses during two battles in 1862, the monument hasn't been tended in 
many years."

Calvary Cemetery is located in the Woodside neighborhood of the NYC Borough 
of Queens (coterminous with the NYS County of Queens).


For the complete NYC NEWSDAY article, "Battle-worn marker needs care", please 
go to:

<http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/newyork/nyc-nydiar264677017mar26,0,3
130954.story?coll=nyc-nynews-print>


Regards,

Walter Greenspan
Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY