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his is a rich crimson sash worn around the waist, which, with the scarlet fez with blue tassel, or the parti-coloured silk turban, presents to the eye a pleasing effect. The Berdan sharp-shooters wear a curious dark green sack — scarcely a sack — in fact, more like a cavalry jacket, trimmed with a light-green cord, wide blue bag-trowsers, and russet leggins.--They wear a cap of the old French infantry pattern, surmounted with a hen's feather of dark green. The 55th New York regiment, (Garde Lafayette,) the members of whom are all Frenchmen, wear the uniform of the French infantry of the line — blue frock coat trimmed with scarlet, scarlet pants, and the French full dress infantry cap, with the double scarlet pomnon. They have recently adopted a gray uniform overcoat, trimmed with scarlet cord, which gives them a gay and imposing appearance. The D'Epeneuil Zouaves, a magnificent body of men, dress in the picturesque uniform of the Turcos, while the 88th New York (Irish brigade) wea<