Sentence:  The road seemed animated with a few more wagons than usual ; a carriage raising up the choking June dust , and beyond , in a meadow , a local <WSD>militia</WSD> company drilling with muskets , Kentuck ' rifles , every kind of horse pistol , old sword , or cutlass . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army