The 69th Infantry Regiment is a military unit from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard. It is known as the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth", a name said to have been given to it by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War. As the citation from poet Joyce Kilmer illustrates, this unit is also the original owner of "Fighting Irish" nickname, which the University of Notre Dame inherited via chaplains who served with the unit during the Civil War.[citation needed] Between 1917 and 1992 it was also designated as the 165th Infantry Regiment.