Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-05
The Nyounaea zouaves.

From the Richmond Examiner, July rs.
Two cars in this train were appropriated to
the transportation OF wounded Yankees, TWEEN
ty.three in number the majority of whom be-
longed TO Ellsworlh's Fire Zouayes. There
were among them, however, a great variety of
uniforms One fellow, with bright red pants
and a blue Jacket told us he belonged To the
fourteenth regiment New York militia. they
were all wounded in the most horrible manner,
and as their wounds had received no atten-
ton, they were in truly pitiable condition.
Their friends having run oil and deserted
them they had lain on the field just where
their injuries were received until picked up by
our troops and our surgeons being more than
busy attending to our own wounded, their
cases were, OF necessity, postponed until after
their arrival in this city. The most Of them
had been shot in the lower extremities One
fellow had both his legs ccushed and several
had one leg broken. One OF the ZOuaveS pre-
scented most dreadful spectacle. A rifle bail
had entered just below his right eye. His
whole face and head were SO swelled and dis
torted by inflammation thai it is no great
stretch of language to say that This own moth
er would not have known him." From anoth-
er OF EIisworth's Zouayes, whose lett leg
had been shattered by a musket bullet, but
who seemed at the time to be suffering lit.
tie pain, we derived considerable information.
to talk. He told us there were not ten
Zouaves in the regiment who did not re-
ioice when Ellsworth was killed; that he was
one of the most brutal and tyrannical men
that ever lived that he never issued an order
without accompanying it with an oath or
kick. He also said that tile s0utherners had
done great injustice to Ellsworth's aud Dur
yeas Zouaves by surprising them to be COM
posed OF the same material as Billy Wilson's
''pet lambs.' On inquiring at what time dur
ing the action he was hurt and by what regi.
ment the Zouaves were opposed, he said he
had been wounded during the second hour OF
the battle, aud vas captured by and carried to
the rear of the second regiment of the South
Carolinians. This regiment, it was, he re-
ports, that annihated the Zouaves. He said
he had been but few moments behind the
South Caronians before he was fully con-
WINGED that the Yankees could never whip
these people. He Gays that no description
could do justice to the cOolness and non-cbal-
once OF the PslmettOes during the most terri
Bile carnage of the fight. He says that as the
wounded fell, and were borne 10 the rear,
though, they, in many cases, must have been
suffering agony, they TESTED and laughed as
though nothing had happened, and they were
in the midst of peace and security. One de.
mure looking fellow seemed to think his fate
an uncommonly hard one, as the moment he
arrived on the field, before he had even cock
ed hio gun, a bullet struck him full in The
belly, and passed entirely through him.
These men were carried temporarily to liar
woods's factory, where their wounds received
the attention they SO much required. a salute
Of twenty-one guns was fred at Forts Moul,
trie and Sumter, in Charleston barbor, on
Thursday, in honor of the victory at Man
asSaS,