April 5, 2024
2 Civil War Zouave Patriotic Covers: Wilson's Zouaves, Birney's Zouave Regiment
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These original and unused Civil War patriotic covers come from the 19th C collection of T. Harrison Garrett, via the estate of the family of his librarian and art curator. 1. "Motto of Wilson's Zouaves." The signpost above the soldier reads "To Richmond"Col. William Wilson of Staten Island recruited this regiment in New York City and the sixth infantry regiment was known as Wilson's Zouaves.Small bit of album residue on verso of this envelope.2. "Col. David B. Birney's Zouave Regiment"Published by Magee, 316 Chestnut St.David Bell Birney, son of antislavery leader James Gillespie Birney was born in 1825 in Huntsville, Alabama. He practiced law until the outbreak of the Civil War, meanwhile studying military subjects. Birney recruited the 23d Pennsylvania militia regiment largely at his own expense. His unit became a three-year regiment on Aug. 31, 1861 and he was commissioned as its colonel from that date.He was once described "as expressionless as Dutch cheese and with a cold and covert manner"!The elaborate Zouave uniforms had been popularized by Col. Elmer Ellsworth in the years just prior to the Civil War. A number of regiments adopted them when going to war in 1861, but their popularity faded quickly. They were not terribly practical to maintain, and it was widely assumed that they attracted enemy fire on the battlefield.Precursors
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