Sentence:  Wherever you looked , you saw Committeemen running across the meadows , some away from the road , some toward it , some parallel to it ; and about a <WSD>mile</WSD> to the west a cluster of at least fifty militia were making their way in our direction . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters