. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . 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
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . 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 company of very 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 ,and at four oclock the young company was on duty. Their uniform was gray with a red stripe and trim-mings, red fatigue-caps, and white cross-belts. Later in the war they saw service at the rianttrra af the Confederate States to disregard the agreement with theState of Texas. Therefore, Colonel Earl Van Dorn wasordered to Texas, either to enlist the men into the Confederatearmy or to take them prisoners of war. Several of the com-missioned officers resigned from the United States service andjoined the Confederacy, but the rank and file were almostunanimously loyal. On April 23d, Colonel C. A. Waite,who had succeeded to the command of the Department ofTexas, and the other officers on duty at headquarters wereseized and paroled. On the 25th of April, Major C. C. Sib-ley, commanding the Third Infantry, was forced to surrenderat Saluria after he had embarked his forces. The troops, withtheir officers, were then allowed to sail for New York afterthe officers had given the following parole: Saluria, Tex., April 25, the Authorities of the Confed
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