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A Very Colorful Fight - Fridays at the Front - Season 4, Episode 10
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After the Crimean War, many young men from across the US became enamored with the Algerian Zouaves. Militia units and drill dressed in uniforms meant to emulate them. Several Civil War units began the war with this gaudy dress. In the middle of Jackson’s Valley Campaign in 1862, two of these units collided. What happened?
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