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Crittenden shook , and seconds and principals started for Long 's tent . `` Boys , '' he said to the others , `` I 'm sorry fer ye . I ai n't got but four drinks -- and -- '' the old Sergeant was approaching ; `` and one more fer the Governor . '' Rivers smiled broadly when he saw Crittenden at noon . `` The ` Governor ' told me , '' he said , `` you could n't do anything in this regiment that would do you more good with officers and men . That fellow has caused us more trouble than any other ten men in the regiment , and you are the first man yet to get the best of him . If the men could elect you , you 'd be a lieutenant before to-morrow night . ''