Appraiser Rafael Eledge discussed a collection of Civil War memorabilia related to the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, known as "Duryée's Zouaves," at the August 2014 ROADSHOW in Charleston, W ...

With New York providing more soldiers than any other state during the war, there are countless graves of soldiers and veterans from the Civil War and numerous monuments to honor them. Madison ...

The 5th New York were also known as “Duryea’s Zouaves.” They were dissolved at Chancellorsville because many of its members’ two-year enlistments had expired.

A dozen veterans of the New York Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry spent a snowy Sunday morning, March 10 honoring Irish-American Civil War veterans buried at two Albany, N.Y ...

At the age of 24, as commander of the 11th New York Volunteers, also known as the First Fire Zouaves, Ellsworth became the first Union officer killed in the war. He was not just any Union officer.