...ractors, and the lack of experience and celerity in the subordinates of the Quartermaster-General's department at Washington. Among the liveliest soldiers encamped on any field were our neighbors Duryea 's Zouaves. The Confederates had dubbed this regiment, from their baggy red trousers and reckless bearing the red-legged devils, and had invested them with the characteristics of the Bashi-Bazouks. ...