This is a heavily re-sculpted build of Jaguar and Verlinden's 120mm Zouave figures (modified with 2-part epoxy putty), and Verlinden's 120mm Civil War Napoleon Cannon. The 5th New York received the National color from “some admiring ladies of New York” on 16 July 1861 at Clinton Hall in New York. The Foam and Bondo base is mounted on Zebra wood.
Zouave
Second Battle of Bull Run, 1862
Second Battle of Bull Run, 1862
At the Second Battle of Bull Run, the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, "Duryee's Zouaves" held off the flanking attack of James Longstreet's Corps for ten crucial minutes before it was overrun. Of 525 men, approximately 120 were killed and 330 were wounded in less than 10 minutes. The 5th New York thus suffered the highest percentage of casualties in the shortest amount of time of any unit in the Civil War.
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