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ENROLLED AMONG THE “SELECT.”
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answering royal salutes; and the document furnished by the Secretary of the Navy, which was to make “Gen. Sherman and party” welcome guests in the courts and camps of the old world, was still left to us, though both document and battery, I think, were shorn of somewhat of their original august proportions. However, had not we the seductive program still, with its Paris, its Constantinople, Smyrna, Jerusalem, Jericho, and “our friends the Bermudians?” What did we care?