Sherman Was Right (1914)

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• 1914

An imaginary war is caused by an imaginary grievance. The excitement opens in the war office where a fiery speaker is trying to wake his slumbering companions. At last they are thoroughly aroused by the arrival of an elderly courier who has taken twenty years to deliver the war message. One army is composed exclusively of married men, who are willing to die, and the battles are fought under the rules and regulations of the union. It is treason to fight after 5.30 on weekdays, and every soldier must be off the field by 1 p.m. Saturdays. Cannon balls are borrowed by one army of the other, and the climax comes with the breaking up of the death struggle by the wives of the married contingent.