<h3>"CHEERS NOT MILITARY--BUT I LIKE THEM!"</h3>
<p>After the disarray of the first Bull Run battle, the President drove
out to the camps to rally the "boys <i>in the blues</i>." General
Sherman was only a colonel, and he had the rudeness of a military man
to hint to the visitor that he hoped the orator would not speak so as
to encourage cheering and confusion. The President stood up in his
carriage and prefaced his speech with this exordium:</p>
<p>"Don't cheer, boys; I confess that I rather like it, myself; but
Colonel Sherman, here, says it isn't military, and I guess we had
better defer to his opinion." With his inimitable wink, which would
have been an independent fortune to a stage comedian.
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