Anderson Zouaves Research

A Flag Raising at the Battery [5 July 1894]













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...There was a flag raising at the Battery at sunrise, participated in by the Anderson Zouaves, veterans of the Sixty-second Regiment, N.Y.V.; Robert Anderson and A.S. Williams Post No. 394, G.A.R., and Robert Anderson Camp Sons of Veterans. Christopher R. Forbes, Sergeant Van Arsedale’s great grandson, pulled the halliards, and Charles B. Riker, brother of Col. Riker, the organizer of the zouaves, delivered an address. 

New York Times, July 5th 1894