User talk:John Tierney

Riker[edit]

John, sorry about the name, of course it was John Harvey, not Charles Harvey. And, I used your Anderson Zouaves website as my source, as it appeared fairly authoritative and I trusted the information you had collected. Please feel free to change the article to more more accurate.

As for the attorney, I drew this from [the New York Public Library's website. It may be wrong, but I was using them as a source.

Thanks for your efforts!

Scott Mingus 00:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback Scott. I'm a bit new to Wikipedia so am not real sure about the ettiquette. It is a shame you are not privy to new source material. It has been very hard to find information on a regiment which was, at the time, as famous as the 5th or even the 7th (if you use newspaper column inches as a barometer). I'll make corrections if you don't get in before me.

Regards
John Tierney 02:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Van A.[edit]

Thanks for your note. My edit concerning the age of Van A. was based on the citation posted in the article, which included the following (my bolds):

"The British flag was torn down and replaced by the American colors by Van Arsdale, the sailor boy, and the "flag run up by one of his lineal descendants, Christopher R. Forbes, who was assisted by officers of the Anderson Zouaves."

What is now referred to as "The Battery" in common modern paralance in NYC has always seemed to me to refer to the landfilled section south of the old Customs House that was filled in during the 19th century, and did not exist for the first Evacuation Day. The old Customs House sits upon the site of the forts that were there from the time of the Dutch to the time discussed in the article. It seems that the flagpole for the fort would have been in or near the "Bowling Green" that lay before the fort. At least, that is my understanding. It would seem possible, or even likely, that what is now refered to as "The Battery" and what was then refered to as "The Battery" may not be exactly the same place.

Hope this helps clarify. Shoreranger 03:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the Bowling Green thing might have been subject to a bit of local knowledge. I'm in Sydney, Australia so I tend to leave local US gerography up to others. John Tierney 03:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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62nd[edit]

As the history of the 62nd only goes to the peninsula campaign, I am willing to extend it to the end of the war, though any material on the subject would be greatly appreciated. On another note, do you remember Pvt. Miki (the Japanese kid in the 62nd)? Pvt. Mikito Muroya —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmuroya (talk • contribs) 17:55, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]