The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
Monday, January 27, 2020
Nathaniel Dawson describes First Manassas Battlefield-- Part 3: "Fierce Looking Fellows. They Fought Well"
July 25
"I went over the field yesterday. The scene was awful. The dead Yankees were still lying unburied in many places. I saw as many as one hundred in a space of an acre.
"They belong to Ellsworth's Zouaves who were reduced from 1,100 to 200 men. God seems specially to have marked them for vengeance. They wore blue pants and red shirts and are fierce looking fellows. They fought well."
--Old Secesh
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Was "Ellsworth's Zouaves" at First Manassas? I thought there were still being formed and in training outside Albany in July, 1861.
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