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Title: Historical sketches of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars : with an account of author's desperate leap from a swiftly moving train of cars, and a fatiguing tramp of 1,000 miles through three Confederate states, in making his escape from a prison-pen
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Drake, J. Madison (James Madison), 1837-1913
Subjects: Drake, J. Madison (James Madison), 1837-1913 United States. Army. New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives New Jersey -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 New Jersey -- History Revolution, 1775-1783
Publisher: New York : Drake
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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mandant.The Zouaves, by superior drill and deportment, sprung intoprominence at once, and during all these intervening forty yearshave been especial public favorites, not only in Elizabeth andthroughout New Jersey, but in nearly every prominent Ameri-can city, in all of which they have been welcome guests and therecipients of brilliant receptions. The Zouaves have had as guests President U. S. Grantand Generals Sherman, Sheridan, John C. Black, John B. Gor-don, Governor of Georgia, and others, besides many prominentmilitary organizations, including the Tibbitts Corps of Troy,the Jackson Corps of Albany, and Confederate Camp of NewYork city. In 1879 the Zouaves visited Albany, N. Y., and acted asescort to the National encampment of the G. A. R., performingthe same service in San Francisco in August, 1886. In July, 1885, the Zouaves visited Albany for the secondtime, and Troy and Saratoga, the pleasure of their brilliant tourbeing in a measure marred by the sickness and death of General
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272 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE Grant, which occurred the day after they reached Saratoga,while en route to visit him at Mt. McGregor. In 1886, the Zouaves, forty strong, with sixty honorarymembers (including eleven ladies), crossed the. American Con-tinent to San Francisco in a special train of parlor cars, andwere absent from home one month. Neither before nor sincehas any military command ever made this tour for pleasure. In 1890 the Zouaves made a tour of the Southern States,with New Orleans as the objective point. In the Cres-cent City the Zouaves were guests of the famous WashingtonArtillery for three days. Seventeen days were consumed onthis trip. The Zouaves have made more pleasure excursions and visit-ed more cities and states than any other military command inthe country. Three members of the Zouaves—General Drake, MajorRufus King, U. S. Army, and Col. Julian Scott, the famousbattle-scene painter—received Medals of Honor from Congress. The last pilgrimage made by the Zoua

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