#seventh regiment

[ssklaroline]

From tonight’s show. The Crossmen were my favorite. Loved it!

[trained-trainwreck]

My inner Blood Knight is so happy right now. I FOUND A NEW STAIRCASE TO STAND ON.

[dream-the-dream]

Hey guys my friend is trying to march with Seventh Regiment this year but he still needs around a thousand dollars to cover tour fees. He has a gofundme page and you can click here to donate, any amount is greatly appreciated!

For those of you who don't know, Seventh Regiment is part of an organization called Drum Corps International. Drum Corps International is basically an elite marching band made up of only valved brass, percussion, and guard. Every year thousands of musicians between the ages of 14-21 audition for 20 some corps and participate in a summer tour across the country and end with the world championship at Lucas Oil Stadium. For a more in depth explanation check out this video What Is Drum Corps International?

Lastly, if you cannot donate please please share this because there might be someone out there who can. Thank you!

[poppinjalex]

i have my 7th regiment camp tomorrow and it ends sunday night, so i won’t be on

[parkavenuearmory]

Dedicated to the men who served in the Seventh Regiment during World War I, the 107th Infantry memorial is located on the east side of Central Park at 67th Street. Sculptor Karl Illava created this bronze statue depicting seven ‘doughboys’ in battle, as if mounting a charge. Illava drew from his own experience serving as a sergeant in the 107th, and even used his own hands as models for the soldiers’ hands. On Veterans Day wreaths are placed in front, honoring the fallen heroes.

[parkavenuearmory]

HAPPY REPEAL DAY! 80 years ago today the 18th Amendment was repealed, and Prohibition came to an end. The Armory’s own Seventh Regiment lost no time in adding beer advertisements to The Seventh Regiment Gazette, the monthly digest distributed to members of the Regiment. The first issue of 1934 featured an art deco-style, full-page ad for Ruppert’s beer that presented their suds as a wholesome choice for a new generation of drinkers. The brew was made by Jacob Ruppert Jr., a veteran of the Seventh Regiment, a US Congressman, and a beer brewing tycoon. In 1917, he was quoted in The New York Times as saying that the temperance movement had progressed only because of “a wave of clamor, hysteria and mistaken patriotism,” but the tides were strong and his brewery remained closed during the Prohibition years. Ruppert, however, had other pursuits as the owner of the New York Yankees from 1915 until his death in 1939—a legacy that built Yankee Stadium and signed Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio to the Bronx Bombers. When the Volstead Act was repealed in 1933, Ruppert hired 300 additional workers to meet the sudden demand for his product and rolled out an ad campaign that made its way into the Armory's archives. Cheers!

[parkavenuearmory]

TODAY IN HISTORY… 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the New York City Draft Riots. On July 13, 1863, urgent dispatches went out to New York militia units to report for duty in Manhattan as riots had broken out in response to the Conscription Act (a new military draft lottery system where exemptions could be purchased, but at a prohibitively high price). Mobs took over the city, destroying property, setting fires, assaulting government institutions, and attacking African Americans. As Emmons Clark of the Armory's Seventh Regiment described it, “During the three days [July 13, 14, and 15] this brutal mob controlled the city… The authorities were powerless on account of the absence of the organized militia.” On July 16, the Seventh Regiment returned to New York from their guard duties in Maryland, where most city militias had been deployed for the past month as the Confederate Army had pushed into Pennsylvania and the Battle of Gettysburg ensued. Upon arrival at the ferry landing at the foot of Canal Street, the Seventh Regiment was placed in command of the district from 7th to 65th Streets and Third Avenue to the East River. During the night of July 16, the Regiment camped in a factory on Third Avenue and awoke to the news that a group of rioters was at Second Avenue and 21st Street. As Captain Clark led Companies B and C to Second Avenue, the rioters fled from the street and hid in the buildings from which they fired their guns at the soldiers. The Seventh Regiment fired back and proceeded forward block-by-block, from 22nd Street to 33rd Street, quelling the mob, killing two and wounding several more and capturing over 250 guns from the rioters. By the next morning, the Draft Riots were over and the cleanup began. Photo: New York Militia during Draft Riot, 1863. Photographer unknown.

[danielson150-blog]

Dec. 2, 1862: Furloughs

"Order granting furloughs."

December 2, 1862 diary entry by John Danielson, from “History of Company G of 7th Minnesota Volunteers, War of the Rebellion.”