AZ Research

Zoozoos Eat Up the Dinner [12 October 1861]

Saturday, October 12 (1861): Ordered to move camp to "Riverview", a high point about three miles from our present position, and complete an extensive earthwork which had been some time building. Four hundred men were detailed to clear up the ground. The Anderson Zouaves had moved from the place the day before, and there was no trouble in finding the camp, as we could smell it long before we could see it. The farmers living near the camp did not seem to regret the departure of the Zouaves from their vicinity. One lady who lived close by, said she frequently had dinner all prepared for her family, when a party of zoozoos would march in, cooly sit down to the table, eat up the dinner, and as cooly get up and marchout, without as much as a "thank you".