Corcoran's Irish Legion Drummer, 164th New York, 1864 - Canvas Giclee Major General William Heath’s diary

Major General William Heath’s diary entry could hardly have been more exquisitely concise

Here we see a Dragoon Trooper & Bugler during the mid-war period with bearskin crested helmet and green coats faced with red

Morgan’s Rifle Corps

The Whigs were thoroughly briefed on the layout of the enemy camp: the Tory militia was positioned in an old field about 100 yards south of Williamson’s house

mounted his horse and fled the battlefield

Corcoran's Irish Legion Drummer, 164th New York, 1864 - Canvas Giclee Major General William Heath’s diaryCanvas Giclee (printed as ordered) 15 Numbered Overall: 16" x 20" $550. 00 The 164th New York was one of the four regiments recruited in the fall of 1862 from Irish Americans for a brigade to be known as the Corcoran Legion. It was organized by the famed Brigadier Gen. Michael Corcoran, formerly of the 69th New York State Militia. Corcoran however, died when his horse fell on him in December of 1863, so his brigade and the 164th fought without him.