No, it wasn't a dedication to any sort of classical music.
I went to several sources of information on the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry and found out it was called the Mozart Regiment because of sponsorship by the Mozart Hall Committee of New York.
Mozart Hall was what Canterbury Hall in New York City was sometimes called. This building was home of entertainment, but it was also a gathering place for anti-Tammany Hall forces in the city.
The building was three stories high and m 40 feet by 125 feet deep. The concerts there were described as a bit bawdy. Newspapers in the city described the place as having the "prettiest waiter girls in town" and "a nightly disgrace to Broadway and the adjacent streets
A suspicious fire entirely burned the building in the early morning hours of March 24, 1861. It began among stage scenery. A fire marshal had an investigation and determined it was caused by an incendiary device.
Go figure.
Who did it. Upstanding citizens alarmed by the edifice's seedy reputation or, perhaps even Tammany Hall?
What Do You Think? --Old Secesh
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