Fellow Soldiers:--The crisis has arrived in which your country calls upon you, her constitutional guardians, to rally round her standard and to defend her rights and liberties--you are this day assembled to declare whether you will voluntarily answer this call or not.
Sherman addresses soldiers, urging them to defend their country in a time of crisis.
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