Sunday, May 8, 2011

Zouave 2nd Division, Portrait of Roger Fenton (II)




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  1. Another great photo! Were those gaiters standard wear or something special?

  2. I guess they are part of the special Zouave dress code ...

  3. This was the uniform of the Zouave soldiers during the US Civil War as well.

  4. Zouave soldiers in the Civil War? I didn’t know that. I just read about it in Wikipedia, it’s strangely fascinating. Men in North-African uniforms fighting in the US Civil War. And not somewhere in the background, they were part of some major battles!

  5. I didn't either until, coincidentally, the very day I looked at your site. I am reading the book 1861 by Adam Goodheart, and that morning I had read the section on Col Ellsworth taking his Zouave regiment on tour to demonstrate their unique skills.

  6. Apparently Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth was a friend of Lincoln and the first officer to die in the Civil War, killed while trying to retrieve a large Confederate flag flying above an inn at Alexandria, Virginia.


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