From the West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter (printed from the Richmond Inquirer) June 8, 1861:
How to Make a Zouave.—We are responsible for the following recipe for making a Zouave. The real Zouaves (from the South) are now in Virginia and the doubtful reader may appeal to them. It may be that we got our information from one of the French drill sergeants himself. Thus: Take the recruit—keep him forty-eight hours—notting to eat; den maarch him forty-eight hours—notting to eat; den let him fight like h-ll forty-eight hours—notting to eat; by dam, he one zouave.—Richmond Enquirer.
Captured Confederates at Gettysburg
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Coppens' Zouave Battalion
Lt. Colonel George Coppens (seated) and brother, Captain Marie Alfred Coppens.Image sold at auction on Cowan Auctions, for $14,375
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