"Confederate Zouave colours" Topic
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| uglyfatbloke | 09 Nov 2023 10:03 a.m. PST |
Were there any Confederate Zouaves that wore grey jackets – or anything other than blue? |
Col Durnford  | 09 Nov 2023 10:20 a.m. PST |
The Louisiana tigers were all over the board. |
 KimRYoung | 09 Nov 2023 10:56 a.m. PST |
Most of the individual companies of the Louisiana Tigers had different uniforms. There were a handful of other companies in other regiments that had zouave uniforms at in 1861. By early 1862 these uniforms had deteriorated and replaced with non zouave uniforms. The fact is, other then the Tigers at First Bull Run (with various uniforms in the battalion), there are no confederate zouve uniforms anymore, anywhere. Confederate uniforms within any regiment are likely to be anything, and that's the best way to paint them. They don't call them "ragged rebels" for nothing! Kim |
| Shagnasty | 09 Nov 2023 11:52 a.m. PST |
There was Coppen's Louisiana Zouave that was initially deployed to Pensacola in a Zouave/Chasseur uniform but I have no idea what happened to them. |
| Extrabio1947 | 09 Nov 2023 5:46 p.m. PST |
There was only one company of Tiger Rifles in Zouave dress, and the famous striped pantaloons didn't last very long at all. The Zouave jackets were the last original pieces of the uniform to survive. After First Manassas, those dark blue jackets were bleached/re-dyed to a color described in diaries as "rotten peaches." That's why some artists show the jackets as brown. |
| Martin Rapier | 10 Nov 2023 12:47 a.m. PST |
I do my Confederate Zouaves with brown jackets. It is distinctive enough. |
| mildbill | 10 Nov 2023 6:37 a.m. PST |
I believe there was a LA regiment of zouaves at Wilsons' Creek. |
| uglyfatbloke | 10 Nov 2023 6:54 a.m. PST |
Many thanks – I'm obliged to you all….but not so obliged as SWMBO who will not be painting fiddly 54mm Zouaves after all! |
| Cleburne1863 | 13 Nov 2023 7:20 p.m. PST |
Coppen's Zouaves probably still had their Zouave uniforms at the Seven Days, where they started out with only 225 men at Gaines Mill. By Antietam they likely had fewer than 50 men, and who knows how many still had their zouave uniforms. |
| Valmy92 | 11 Dec 2023 7:31 a.m. PST |
Cleburne, that might justify a couple of Zouave figures in an otherwise ragged unit… |
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