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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

A Floating Arsenal!

The Carrollton Sun (Carrollton, Jefferson Parish) had this article printed on May 01, 1861:

A Floating Arsenal. - The Pensacola correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser under date 15th, writes:

A shark was caught this morning with a pair of red breeches and a whole parcel of bowie-knives in his belly, supposed to be the remains of a Zouave. I didn't see the shark. It will be remembered I reported the drowning of a Zouave the other day.
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  1. Louisiana Genealogy BlogsJanuary 5, 2011 at 8:53 AM

    That is a neat article. Here is another shark caught up the MS River in 1878 in Point Coupee.

    http://louisianagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/shark-in-pointe-coupee-1878-j-d-vignes.html

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Coppens' Zouave Battalion

Coppens' Zouave Battalion
Lt. Colonel George Coppens (seated) and brother, Captain Marie Alfred Coppens.Image sold at auction on Cowan Auctions, for $14,375