Mike, The 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, "Duryée's Zouaves has a web site at: http://www.zouave.org/ The site has a lot of good information on "all things" Zouave, including a section called "The Zouave Craze" which includes a picture of an officer of the 5th with epaulettes. The picture is at: http://www.zouave.org/gallery/craze/ells1.html Hope this helps, Alice Gayley NPeters102@aol.com wrote: > During your research has anyone came across a Zouave/Chasseur regiment in > which officers & enlisted men both wore uniforms with epaulettes? > > Sincerely, > > Mike Peters > npeters102@aol.com -- Pennsylvania in the Civil War http://www.pa-roots.com/~pacw/

"Alice J. Gayley" wrote: > > The site has a lot of good information on "all things" > Zouave, including a section called "The Zouave Craze" which > includes a picture of an officer of the 5th with epaulettes. ---------------------- Ahh, those are shoulder straps rather than epaulettes. Epaulettes are those fancy do-jobbers that look like hair brushes with a bunch of little ropes for the bristles. ---------------------- NPeters102@aol.com wrote: > > During your research has anyone came across a Zouave/Chasseur regiment in > > which officers & enlisted men both wore uniforms with epaulettes? ----------------------- In "Uniforms of the Civil War" by Francis A. Lord & Arthur Wise (Thomas Yoseloff, Cranbury NJ, 1970) there's a photo of Corporal Jacob T. Shriner, Co G, 83rd PA Inf., in a "Chasseur de Vincennes" uniform. He's wearing them. Short jacket has a single row of several buttons down to the waist; bottom of jacket appears to extend to top of thighs. Looks close fitting, as opposed to the baggy pants (baggy, but not puffy like some Zouaves). Hat's a shako with plume. As an aside, the uniforms were imported from France and were made for Frenchmen, and too small for most of the Pennsylvanians. They turned them in before leaving for the Peninsular in 1862. Dennis