. . 99. ioo -kvhodv [February. turned o< Ltoff. The long column, with its bands and banners, presented an \m\ spectacle as it filed out upon the railro the bridge. Thousands of voices united in prodigious cheers, thai were taken up again and again, by themoving column and by the vast crow Well be therein time shouted one of the latter, alludingto the universal belief that a general battle would soon occur nearBowling Green. At all ordinary times and places the soldiers were jjermittedto cheer to their hearts content It


. . 99. ioo -kvhodv [February. turned o< Ltoff. The long column, with its bands and banners, presented an \m\ spectacle as it filed out upon the railro the bridge. Thousands of voices united in prodigious cheers, thai were taken up again and again, by themoving column and by the vast crow Well be therein time shouted one of the latter, alludingto the universal belief that a general battle would soon occur nearBowling Green. At all ordinary times and places the soldiers were jjermittedto cheer to their hearts content It was only suppressed when itwould be a breach of military decorum, r when engaged in m<ments requiring silence, in the immediate e of the enemy. Cheering always had effect upon the spirits of the soldi and had a tendency, according to its vigor and volume, to dis-courage the enemy, if within hearing, So, through all the weeksand months and he boys cheered and shouted and yelled whenever anything occurred to afford an excuse. Nor did it takemuch to do thi


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