Sedgwick C. RUSLING

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  General Notes:

Enl 25 Feb,1861. Pvt., Co. F, 5th NY Inf. Detailed as clerk at Div. Head Qtrs, Balt, MD, 8 Sept, 1861; assigned as Clerk to Gen Dix; granted 20 days sick leave from Fort Monroe, VA, 25 Jan, 1863; mustered out at Fort Monroe, VA, 2 May, 186 3. Buried Hazelwood Cemetary, Rahway, NJ.

Despite the far-flung fame of the French Zouaves, it is unlikely that the gaudy uniforms of those exotic soldiers would have found such widespread popularity in the American Civil War had it not been for Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth. Almost overnight dozens of American Zouave companies sprang into existence, spor ting a variety of garb that in most cases owed more to Ellsworth's version of th e Zouave outfit than the true French uniform.

Read about theNew York Zouaves @ http://www.zouave.org/craze.html

Sedgwick married Martha CLENDENIN on 4 May 1864.