A good anecdote is told of one of the Connecticut boys. While in conversation with a rebel, after the capture of Fort Pulaski, the latter said, “At least, with all our faults, we never made wooden nutmegs.” The Yankee, a very demure looking specimen, innocently replied: “We do not make them out of wood any longer,” and pointing to one of the big projectiles lying near, which had breached the fort, added quietly, “we make them now of iron.”
Oxford Democrat, Paris, ME