. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d Billy Wilsons in New York. To cater still further to the love for the spectacular andthe picturesque, still more distinctive regiments were author-ized—the Garibaldi Guard—mainly Italians, under ColonelDUtassy, in a dress that aped the Bersaglieri. The DEpi-neul Zouaves, French and would-be Frenchmen, in the costli-est costume yet devised, and destined to be abandoned beforethey were six months older. Still another French battalion,also in Algerian campaign rig— Les En fonts Perdus. LostChildren, indeed, once they left New York a
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d Billy Wilsons in New York. To cater still further to the love for the spectacular andthe picturesque, still more distinctive regiments were author-ized—the Garibaldi Guard—mainly Italians, under ColonelDUtassy, in a dress that aped the Bersaglieri. The DEpi-neul Zouaves, French and would-be Frenchmen, in the costli-est costume yet devised, and destined to be abandoned beforethey were six months older. Still another French battalion,also in Algerian campaign rig— Les En fonts Perdus. LostChildren, indeed, once they left New York and fell in with thecampaigners of Uncle Sam. Then came the Chasseurs, in verynatty and attractive dress, worn like the others until worn outin one real campaign, when its wearers, like the others, lost theiridentity in the universal, most unbecoming, yet eminently ser-viceable blue-flannel blouse and light-blue kersey trousers, withthe utterly ugly forage cap and stout brogans of the Unionarmy. Fanciful names they took, too, at the start, and bore [80]. THE GUARD EXAMINING PASSES AT GEORGETOWN FERRY So expert became the patrols of the provost-guard, and so thorough the precautions at headquarters during the first half-year of drilland picket duty along the Potomac, that straggling from camp to camp, especially from camp to town, became a thing of the were stationed at the bridges and ferry-boats to examine all passes. These were granted by the regimental, brigade, or divisioncommanders—or by all three—and prescribed the time of departure and also the time of return. The holder was liable also to bestopped by a patrol of the provost-guard in Washington and required to show it again. Attempts were frequently made by officers andmen who had overstayed their leave to tamper with the dates on their passes, but these seldom succeeded. Several officers were dis-missed the service, and many a soldier suffered punishment of hard labor for this offense. Among old ar
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