"Well," says he, "73,000 men from Iowa? You must have a million men."
Says I: "I think about that."
Presently another regiment came along.
"What may that be?"
I called to the color-bearer: "Throw out your colors and let us see," and it was the 17th or 19th—I have forgotten which—Wisconsin.
"Wisconsin! Northwest Territory! Wisconsin! Is it spelled with an O or a W?"
"Why, we spell it now with a W. It used to be spelled 'Ouis.'"
"The 17th! that makes 17,000 men?"
"Yes, I think there are a good many more than that. Wisconsin has sent about 30,000 men into the war."
Then again came along another regiment from Minnesota.