We dubbed these daffodil cavaliers "Butterflies," and the name stuck to them like a poor relation.
Still another distinction that was always noticeable between the two armies was in the bodily bearing of the men.

The Army of the Potomac was drilled more rigidly than the Western men, and had comparatively few long marches.

Its members had something of the stiffness and precision of English and German soldiery, while the Western boys had the long, "reachy" stride, and easy swing that made forty miles a day a rather commonplace march for an infantry regiment.
This was why we knew the new prisoners to be Sherman's boys as soon as they came inside, and we started for them to hear the news.

Inviting them over to our lean-to, we told them our anxiety for the story of the decisive blow that gave us the Central Gate of the Confederacy, and asked them to give it to us..