Have you ever seen a parade of an army? Company by company, they file by. On a war footing, a company is 250 men. When a regiment of I4 companies has passed, you have seen 3,755 men; and that looks like many, many people.
BY E T GUNDLACH — 1931
A Parade of 3,000,000 Men
Do you know that many people by name? To supply these people requires more than 300 dozen hats, more than 600 dozen shoes and some 60,000 buttons; also per day many thousands of pounds of beef, bread and sugar. One regiment passes a given point in about four hours.
Two regiments march by with their auxiliaries and you have seen a brigade of 8,210 men; an important officer, a Brigadier General, is in command.