Desc: Return of the 69th: Directed by Gabriel Murray. With Christine Mulhern, Elizabeth Mulhern. The story behind the painting Return of the 69th bridgade. A historical event recorded in the painting of the return of General Thomas Francis Meagher -(Irish civil war hero and founder of the 69 Irish Brigade) to New York after the battle of Bull Run. The painting is on exibit at the New York Historical Society Nov 11 2011.