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signals. You see him sitting behind a bush looking northwest, down the valley. =Corporal James:= I would say, "Barlow, head straight across to where that line of trees meets the road (indicates the point where the lane from Mills' farm joins the Chester Pike). Sharp, keep about fifty yards to my right rear." I would follow Barlow at 150 yards and when I had reached the bottom land I would wave to Amos to follow us. =Captain:= How about Brown? =Corporal James:= I had already given him his orders to follow as rear guard and he should do so without my telling him. =Captain:= Amos, what do you do when you see the corporal wave to you? =Private Amos:= I would go down the hill and join him. =Captain:= No, you could do better than that. You are too far from the corporal for him to signal you to do much of anything except stay there or join him. You should join him, but you should not go straight down to him. You should head so as to strike the Mills' Lane about 100 yards east of the house and then go down the lane, first looking along the stone wall. In this way you save time in reconnoitering the ground near the Mills' farm and protect the patrol against being surprised by an enemy hidden by the line of trees, or the wall along the lane. You are not disobeying your orders but just using common sense in following them out and thinking about what the corporal is trying to do. Now, Corporal, why didn't you go to the Smith house and find out if the people there had seen anything of the enemy? =Corporal James:= You said we were in the enemy's country, sir, so I thought it best to avoid the inhabitants until I found I could not get information in any other way. I intended first to see if I could locate any enemy around here, and if not, to stop at houses on my return. In this way I would be gone before the people could send any information to the enemy about my patrol. =Captain:= Barlow reaches the Chester Pike where the Mills' lane leaves it. You are about 150 yards in his rear. Sharp is 50 yards off to your right rear, Amos 100 yards to your left rear and Brown 50 yards behind you. Just as Barlow starts to climb over the barbed wire fence into the Chester Pike you see him drop down on the ground. He signals, "Enemy in sight." Tell me quickly what would you do? =Corporal James:= I would wave my hand for all to lie down, and I would hasten forward, stooping over as I ran, until I was about twenty yards from h
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