Sentence:  Private Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Wisconsin Light Artillery wrote in his diary : `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right , found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe their ignorance being little less than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect ' They <WSD>Recooned</WSD> as how you ' uns all would be a heap wus to we ' uns all '' ' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  expect, believe, or suppose