Mobile Register
June 19, 1861
Page 2
HOW
TO MAKE A ZOUAVE—We got our information from one of
the French drill sergeants himself.
Thus:
“Take
de recruit—keep him forty-eight hours—notting to eat;
den march him forty-eight hours—notting to eat; den
let him fight like hell for forty-eight hours—notting
to eat; by dam, he one Zouave!”
[Transcribed by: Sharon Strout]
