. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Review OF Reviews co. IX CASEMATE No. 2UNION PRISONERS, CASTLE PINCKNEY Among the Union prisoners taken at the first battle of Bull Run and transferred to Castle Finckney, licsidesthe Seventy-ninth New York (Scotch) Regiment, the Sixty-ninth New York (Irish) Regiment, and theEighth Michigan Infantry, were some of the Eleventh Fire Zouaves, recruited from the New York FireDepartment. These prisoners were an extremely intelligent lot of men, and adapted themselves to th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Review OF Reviews co. IX CASEMATE No. 2UNION PRISONERS, CASTLE PINCKNEY Among the Union prisoners taken at the first battle of Bull Run and transferred to Castle Finckney, licsidesthe Seventy-ninth New York (Scotch) Regiment, the Sixty-ninth New York (Irish) Regiment, and theEighth Michigan Infantry, were some of the Eleventh Fire Zouaves, recruited from the New York FireDepartment. These prisoners were an extremely intelligent lot of men, and adapted themselves to the situa-tion. They willingly performed police duty. Their casemates were kept in excellent condition. They sharedthe same fare as their guards, and taught them the army method of softening hard-tack so that theycould eat it with less violent exercise of their jaws and danger to their molars. The Charleston ZouaveCadets was a comjiany of \ery young men, residents of Charleston, full of patriotic ardor and well State of South Carolina seceded from the Union at three oclock in the afternoon of December 20,186
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