I could ask no better comrades than the boys of the Third Michigan Infantry, who belonged to the same "Ninety" with me.

The boys from Minnesota and Wisconsin were very much like those from Michigan.

Those from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas all seemed cut off the same piece.

To all intents and purposes they might have come from the same County.

They spoke the same dialect, read the same newspapers, had studied McGuffey's Readers, Mitchell's Geography, and Ray's Arithmetics at school, admired the same great men, and held generally the same opinions on any given subject.