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Beecher was to have accompanied the expedition, but urgent duties obliged him to give up the

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idea. There were other passengers who could have been spared better, and would have been

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spared more willingly. The Lieutenant General Sherman was to have been of the party also,

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but the Indian War compelled his presence on the plains. A popular actress had entered

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her name on the ship's books, but something interfered, and she couldn't go. The drummer

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former boy of the Potomac, deserted, and lo, we had never a celebrity left.

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However, we were to have a battery of guns from the Navy Department, as per advertisement,

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to be used in answering royal salutes, and the document furnished by the Secretary of

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the Navy, which was to make General Sherman and Party welcome guests in the courts and

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camps of the Old World, was still left to us, though both document and battery,

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I think, were shorn of somewhat of their original august proportions. However, had not we the

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seductive program still, with its Paris, its Constantinople, Smyrna, Jerusalem, Jericho—