. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . BALTIC* APRIL 29, 1861.[Foot of Canal and Spring- Streets ] resigned, and numbers of the men when mustered out enlisted in otherregiments, many going with Banks to New Orleans. While on the Peninsula, however, the men were not allowed to be regiment participated in a couple of skirmishes at Newmarket and BigBethel, while encamped at Newport News. During the famous engagement,March 8, 18G2, between the Merrimac and the Monitor and the Cum-berland, the regiment occupied r
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . BALTIC* APRIL 29, 1861.[Foot of Canal and Spring- Streets ] resigned, and numbers of the men when mustered out enlisted in otherregiments, many going with Banks to New Orleans. While on the Peninsula, however, the men were not allowed to be regiment participated in a couple of skirmishes at Newmarket and BigBethel, while encamped at Newport News. During the famous engagement,March 8, 18G2, between the Merrimac and the Monitor and the Cum-berland, the regiment occupied rifle pits on shore with a view to repel anyforce the enemy might attempt to land. One company, under command ofColonel Leoser. had charge of a 12 lb. rifled gun, which he himself sighted andfired from the bluff. The First Zouaves were soon sent home, and mustered out of the ser-vice, June 2, 1862, at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, by order of theWar Department. Lieutenant-colonel McFarland (one of the Seventh Regi-ment officers), after Colonel Leoser resigned his command and joined the (Ml! F 1 K K M K N 7 31. regular service, took command of the regiment ;ii Newport (Tews, and came home with them to be mustered out at Governors Island. Having thus no longer any regimental organization, the identity of toeFirst Fire Zouaves became merged, in the persons of its original members,with that of ot her corps during the remainder of the war. As soldiers servingunder other colors, the New York lire laddies never failed to give a goodaccount of themselves, and wherever the lighting was hottest, the danger great-est, they were sure to be found: thus proving how great a mistake theauthorities of t lie War Department bad madewhen they mustered out of service a body ofmen like the First Zouaves and condemnedthem to the monotony of doing garrison the other hand, had t he matter been decidedby those possessing ordinary discernment andcommon sense, and had not adverse influencesbeen a
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