and wooster turns out to be a really good recruiter. he wants 1,000 men. he gets 5,000 men. to sign up. so, suddenly, they don't have a regiment. they've got the makings of a full brigade. that could have been five regiments. there were some administrative technicalities, some glitches, not quite sure exactly. i haven't seen a concise explanation of what happened, but what was going be on the 4th california never got organized. so they had these 5,000 men and they divvied them up in four regiments. the 1st california and the 3rd california had 15 companies each, 1,500 men each. the 2nd and 5th were standard 1,000-men regiments. so they got 5,000 men. these men show up in general stone's area, second, third, fourth of october, 1861. they bucked his numbers up from about 1 -- excuse me, add 5,000, 7,000 to 12,000 almost overnight. now, you're shanks evans. you're the confederate commander. you've been looking at 7,000 yankees across the river, and all of a sudden there's 12,000. you're going to notice that. and he begins to wonder, okay, what's going on here? and then just a f