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Colonels

COLONELS OF THE 69th REGIMENT

 

Dates

Names

Unit

 

1849

Colonel John Ewen

9th Regiment

1852

Colonel Benjiman C. Ferris

9th Regiment

1852

Colonel  Sweeney

Republician Rifles (4th Irish Regiment) / 75th Regt

1853

Colonel Roe (Rowe)

69th Regt (2d Irish Regiment)

1854

Colonel Michael Doheny

69th Regt

 

1854-59

Colonel James R. (B) Ryan

69th Regt

 

1860-61

Colonel Michael Corcoran

69th Regt

 

1862

Colonel James Bagley

69th Reg NYNG

1862-62

Colonel  Robert Nugent

69th Regt NYS Vol

1862

Colonel Mathew Murphy

69th NYNG Artillery/182d Inf

1862

Colonel James Kelly

69th Regt NY Vol

1863-64

Colonel Mathew Murphy

69th Reg NYNG

1863

Colonel James E. McGee

69th Regt NY Vol

1865

1865

Colonel James J. Smith

LTC John Coonan

69th Regt NY Vol

182d Inf Regt

1866

Colonel Martin McMahon

69th Regt

 

1867-93

Colonel James Cavanaugh

69th Regt

 

1893-1895

Colonel George Moore-Smith

69th Regt

 

1895-1898

Colonel Edward Duffy

69th Regt

 

1910-16

Colonel Louis D. Conley

69th Regt

 

 

1916-17

Colonel William N. Haskell

165th Regt

 

1917-18

Colonel Charles D. Hine

165th Regt

 

1917

Colonel John J. Phalen

69th Regt NYG

1918

Colonel John W. Barker

165th Regt

 

1918

Colonel  Frank R. McCoy

165th Regt

 

1918

Colonel Harry D. Mitchell

165th Regt

 

1918-1919

Colonel Charles R. Howland

165th Regt

 

1919

Colonel William J. Donovan

165th Regt

 

1919-27

Colonel Jonh J. Phalen

165th Regt

 

1927-34

Colonel William J. Costigan

165th Regt

 

1934-38

Colonel Alexander E. Anderson

165th Regt

 

1938-1940

Colonel John J Mangan

165th Regt

 

1940-1943

Colonel Gardiner Conroy

165th Regt

 

1943-45

Colonel Gerard W. Kelly

165th Regt

 

1944-45

Colonel Joseph Hart

165th Regt

 

1947-49

Colonel Martin H Meaney

165th Regt

 

1945-47

Colonel William Cavanaugh

69th Regt NYG

1949-57

Colonel Martin H. Foerey

165th Regt

 

1957-62

Colonel William Lynch

165th Regt

 

1962-3

Colonel Alfred S. Byrne

165th Regt

 

Reorganized and re-designated 15 April 1963 as the 69th Infantry to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions

 

 

 

1963-64

LTC John McCarthy

1st Bn 69th Regt

1963-68

LTC William Klauz

2d Bn 69th Regt

1964-66

LTC Dominick Pellicio

1st Bn 69th Regt

1966-72

LTC Charles Shea

1st Bn 69th Regt

1968-72

LTC Joseph A. Healey

2d Bn 69th Regt

1972-75

LTC Joseph Fleming

1st Bn 69th Regt

1972-75

LTC John O. Santelli

2d Bn 69th Regt

1975-79

LTC John Regan

69th Regt

 

1979-81

LTC John Walsh

69th Regt

 

1981-84

LTC Mc Kenna

69th Regt

 

1984-86

LTC Gregory Haven

69th Regt

 

1986-89

LTC John Gundy

69th Regt

 

1989-92

LTC Robert Hutter

69th Regt

 

1992-95

LTC Frank Riggio

69th Regt ADA

1995-98

LTC Russell Vernon

69th Regt ADA

1998-2000

LTC Benny Lum

69th Regt

 

2000-05

LTC Jeffrey Slack

69th Regt

 

2005-

LTC Charles Crosby

69th Regt

 

 

 

 

 

Honorary Colonels of the Regiment

 

 

 

Martin H. Foery, (Deceased) Major General, Honorary Colonel of the Regiment

 

Joseph A. Healey, (Deceased) Major General, Honorary Colonel of the Regiment