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Beecher was to have

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accompanied the

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expedition, but

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urgent duties

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obliged him to give

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up the idea.

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There were other

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passengers who

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could have been

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spared better, and

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would have been

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spared more

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willingly.

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The Lieutenant

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General Sherman was

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to have been of the

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party also, but the

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Indian War

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compelled his

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presence on the

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plains.

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A popular actress

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had entered her

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name on the ship's

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books, but

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something

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interfered, and she

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couldn't go.

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The drummer former

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boy of the Potomac,

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deserted,

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and lo, we had

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never a celebrity

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left.

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However, we were to

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have a battery of

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guns from the Navy

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Department, as per

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advertisement, to

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be used in

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answering royal

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salutes, and the

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document furnished

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by the Secretary of

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the Navy, which was

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to make General

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Sherman and Party

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welcome guests in

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the courts and

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camps of the Old

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World, was still

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left to us, though

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both document and

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battery, I think,

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were shorn of

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somewhat of their

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original august

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proportions.

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However,

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had not we the

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seductive program

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still, with its

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Paris, its

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Constantinople,

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Smyrna, Jerusalem,

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Jericho—