Birthplace of the American Zouave: How Elmer Ellsworth spread Zouave mania through Illinois and the rest of America September 5, 2022
By Ron Field

Posing in the New York City gallery of Jeremiah Gurney on July 18, 1860, these U.S. Zouave Cadets were later identified via a newspaper cutting in a scrapbook at the Chicago Historical Society. From left: George W. Fruin, a Chicago photographer before the war; Lucius Sherman Larrabee (1837-1863), who fell at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, as a captain in the 44th New York Infantry; Charles Scott, Jr. (1839 -1870), a captain in the 8th Iowa Infantry; Henry S. Wade (life dates unknown), who first organized the Fire Zouaves in Boston, and later likely served in the 11th Illinois Cavalry from December 1863 until the end of the war; and Orderly Sgt. James Rudolph Hayden (1837-1902), captain of Company A (Chicago Zouaves), 19th Illinois Infantry.
CDCV Photo in the collection of Dennis J Miller