CIVIL WAR 165tth NEW YORK ZOUAVE MUTINY MORRIS ISLAND SC 1865 For Sale

The 165th NY Duryea Zouaves served w distinction in the 1864 Port Hudson and Red River Louisiana campaigns, and in Virginia the last year of the War. The unit made national news in 1865 while occupying Savannah, Georgia and then Charleston, South Carolina when some officers and men refused serve alongside black soldiers also on occupation duty. At the time Southern papers claimed the Zouaves believed that the black soldiers were a threat to Southern white women. When Generals Gillmore, Hatch and Benedict declared that Federal troops could not pick and chose who to serve with, t44 officers and men were declared in mutiny for refusing the order to surrender their regimental colors, and ordered to brief imprisonment, first at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, and then again at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina. They were eventually honorably discharged once the officers and the men obeyed the order.An original Civil War General Order, issued Hilton Head, South Carolina, Sept 7,1865 charges Surgeon George C Hubbard and Captain William R French, 165th New York Volunteers with insubordination in regard to the orderto surrender the regimental flags to General John Porter Hatch while in the presence of the General & the officers of the 165th at Morris Island, SC, July 14, 1865. Captain French is found not guilty but Surgeon Hubbard is found Guiltyand is reprimanded for insubordination. 3 pp 8 x 5" ptd. 2 punch slits left margin, Overall VG. Comes w service info.