An amusing sword presentation was made on the 17th by
officers of the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania to their Colonel, Wm. Sirwell. The presentation speech of Capt. Gillespie
was, “Here we are and here you are. This
is a bully sword and came from bully fellows.
Take it, and use it in a bully manner.”
Col. Sirwell’s reply was, “Captain, that was a bully speech, let us take
a bully drink.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 8, 1862, p. 2
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