I found some pdf file photos on the Army Heritage Center's online digital catalog. The Castle Pickney photo shows a gray suited company with officers in blue uniforms at the Castle. If you zoom in, you will see Secession cockades, brass belt plates, jackets, with epaulettes and trimmed cuffs. If some people are wondering about the Militia uniform, well here is one.

The other one is the famous "Hotel Zouave" photo complete with POW's from the 1861 Manassas battle. Fantastic, notice the guards on the ramparts, same type of SC uniform.

I could not open the pictures but I think I have seen those pictures before. The book The Photographic History of the Civil War volume IV has an exterior picture of Castle Pinckey, identifying the guards as the Charleston Zouave Cadets, one of the guards on the parapets above the "Hotel de Zouave" and then the three of the inmates. The book does not give picture credits.

Andrew:


It was definitely the Charleston Zouaves:

Thus, the Charleston Zouave Cadets adopted for undress and full dress, uniforms of grey cloth made by tailor Thomas Whiley, a member of the company who had a workshop on ‘East Bay, near Pritchard Street.’ The unit paraded by moonlight for the first time in their ‘neat undress grey suit, with white cross-belts’ on October 23, 1860. Little else is known about this uniform, but it was probably similar if not identical to that worn for fatigue later in 1861. The unit inspected and adopted their ‘full dress Zouave uniform’ at a meeting at their Armory on November 23.



Subsequently referred to as ‘winter uniform’, it was first worn by some company members at a drill on December 14. ‘Black caps’, probably made from waterproof oil-skin cloth, were also available for collection on that date. The whole company drilled in this uniform four days later. Based on photographic evidence, the chasseur-style uniform adopted consisted of a grey, nine chasseur jacket with four- to five-inch skirt, slit in the sides and most probably in the rear, with two buttons on the rear above three-quarter inch pleats. Modeled on the habit-tunique adopted by the French Army in 1860, the jacket worn by the Zouave Cadets had a solid red collar, half-inch wide red braid on the front and bottom edges, red shoulder straps secured by a single small button, and pointed red cuffs fastened with two small buttons. This garment was apparently without the belt loops often found on the chasseur jackets. Most of the jackets worn by the Charleston unit had a single external breast pocket, the location of which appears to have been dependent on whether the wearer was right or left handed. NCO’s chevrons were red and worn above the elbow with points up.



Trousers were also grey with one-inch wide red seam stripes, and cut in the full chasseur style, probably being gathered at the waist with pleats, and below the knee into wide cuffs fastened by buttons or buckles. These were worn with white, buttoned gaiters, over which russet leather jambiere, or greaves, buckled at the top and laced down the side opening. Based on photographic evidence, the Zouave Cadets also wore small crowned red chasseur caps with lighter-colored (probably light blue) bands during the same period, which were possibly part of the undress uniform adopted in October 1860.



The uniform worn by officers of the Charleston Zouave Cadets at the time the ‘winter uniform’ was chosen consisted of a dark blue, nine-button frock coat with solid red collar and cuffs edged with gold braid, the cuffs being pointed and fastened by three small buttons. Rank was indicated by shoulder straps with red ground, and a crimson net waist sash. Straight-legged dark blue trousers were trimmed with broad red seam stripes. Their chasseur caps resembled those of other ranks but were embellished with one or more horizontal stripes of gold braid encircling the band; above them similar stripes rose vertically to a circle of braid around the top of the crown. The Hungarian knot usually associated with this pattern appears not to have been adopted by the Zouave Cadet Officers.



The Zouave Cadets paraded in their winter chasseur uniform for the first time on the day of South Carolina’s succession on December 20, 1860, on which occasion it was briefly described in the local press as being ‘gray cloth - neat, serviceable and pretty.’



The first flag carried by the Charleston Zouave Cadets, variously called ‘the Secession flag’, and the ‘new” State Rights Resistance Banner’”, was unfurled outside the Mercury office on November 8, 1860, as a demonstration of opposition to the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln two days before. It was described briefly as bearing ‘... a Palmetto tree, with a crouching Tiger - the motto of the company Droit et Avant (Right and to the Front) at the base.’ Paraded before the office of the Charleston Daily Courier the same evening, this flag was further described as being ‘... Red with a Palmetto tree in the center, and around the tree a rattlesnake, and near it a crouched tiger. A single star completes the symbolism.’



By December 27, 1860, the Zouave Cadets were armed with 75 Model 1841 (Mississippi) rifles with sword bayonets, which Lieutenant Chichester considered ‘totally unfitted’ for the unit. At this time he sought Model 1855 rifles or rifle-muskets, which the state informed him it was unable to supply. Upon starting out for service on Morris Island, the unit was issued 80 ‘old style US Rifles, without bayonets’. Seemingly they had succeeded in getting rid of their ‘Mississippi’ rifles, only to receive inferior Model 1842 smooth bore muskets.



During January 1861, Chichester requested ‘the [Model 1855] Minnie Rifle, with the Saber bayonet, similar to those now in the hands of the “Palmetto Guards”... Next to these would be the “rifled musket” of 1860 make...’ He was informed that neither of these arms were available from the state arsenal. Instead, on February 25, the unit received a further 20 Model 1842 muskets, presumably to arm new recruits.



White cross belts had been acquired to be worn with the undress uniform of the Zouave Cadets by October 23, 1860. On November 18, a committee of the unit, consisting f R.C. Gilchrist, E. John White and Robert Thurston, placed a notice in the Charleston Mercury soliciting subscriptions from their fellow-citizens for the purpose of raising one thousand dollars to equip one hundred men with knapsacks, blankets, and other accouterments necessary for active duty in the field’. This committee reported to the company on December 4, on which occasion ‘instructions in bayonet exercise’ began.



The men photographed in their ‘winter uniform’ during this period are presumably wearing the accouterments purchased as a result of the work of this committee. With the exception of knapsacks, all accouterments were acquired in either Charleston or Columbia. These consisted of black leather waist belts supporting black cap pouch and cartridge box. Variation in belt plate pattern is evident, at least two men in the ‘winter uniform’ group photo wear an unusual two-piece brass buckle with ‘tiger head’ design, whilst Private Ellis Green wore a plain rectangular brass plate in a solo image. Officers acquired white sword belts with two-piece buckles, probably gilt and bearing the state seal palmetto design.



‘Tent’ knapsacks manufactured by the ‘North American Gutta Percha Company’ of 102 Broadway, New York, had been acquired by the Zouave Cadets by November 21, 1860. Later also supplied to a Northern Zouave regiment - the 11th new York Volunteers (Ellsworth’s) - these ‘combination’ knapsacks consisted of an India rubber blanket with ‘eyelet holes around the edges ... [and] suitable straps and buckles, by means of which it is folded up and fastened...’ According to the Courier, ‘six men can sleep secure from wind and weather’, when four of these blankets were secured together.



On February 25, 1861, the unit received from the state arsenal 60 each of cartridge boxes for the muskets, ‘new’; bayonet scabbards; waist belts and plates; cap pouches. Later in the year on June 26, the new recruits were issued 80 each of cartridge boxes, shoulder belts, buff waist belts, and cap pouches.



The Charleston Zouave Cadets were received into the service of newly-organized Republic of South Carolina on New Year’s Day, 1861, and were ordered to Morris Island where, in company with the Citadel Cadets and German Riflemen, they were put to work constructing ‘Fort Morris’, a coastal battery guarding the main ship channel into Charleston Harbor. Following this the unit undertook a more tedious task. According to Zouave Cadet Anthony Riecke: ‘Guard duty along the beach and a Cummings Point opposite Fort Sumter proved rather irksome duty to novices in the art of war, as they were; where even billows seemed a boat, which was the cause of many a midnight alarm, when the commands were called out and stood at the battery in the rain and cold, for several hours on the lookout for the expected succor for Fort Sumter’.



The tedium was broken on January 9, 1861 when the Federal side-wheeler ‘Star of the West’ loomed through the early morning haze attempting unsuccessfully to land reinforcements for the Federal garrison in the beleaguered fort in the middle of Charleston Harbor. As infantry support for the Citadel Cadet gunners, the Zouave Cadets and the German Riflemen witnessed the first shots fired in anger in the War Between the States.



Returning to Charleston on January 15, the Zouave Cadets completed several spells of ‘night guard duty’ on board a steamer patrolling between Fort Sumter and the bar at the Harbor entrance. The unit was again on active service by February 26 as part of the 1st Regiment of Rifles, South Carolina Militia, embarking this time for James Island where they took up quarters at Secessionville. Moving to Sullivan’s Island on March 8, they were encamped there during the final bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12/13, 1861, on which occasion they were posted at ‘the Myrtles’, protecting the eastern end of the island.


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I got the above information from here:

http://www.zarvona.com/Newspapers%20and%20the%20Zouave%20Cadets.htm

Thank you for reposting those pictures. The ones in the book are in the same uniforms, but diferent poses.

I like the giant with the beard in that Artillery picture.

Two more images ripped off the internet. One from Wikipedia and another from a POW site.