They naturally supposed that I had a strong party with me, and when I ordered them to "fall in" they obeyed from habit.

By the time Hill and Davis came up I had them formed in two ranks, the front rank facing about, and I was taking away their bayonets, pistols, etc.

We disarmed them, destroying a musket and several pistols, and, on counting them, we found that we three had taken eighteen, which, added to the six first captured, made twenty-four.

We made them sling their knapsacks and begin their homeward march.

It was near night when we got back, so that these deserters had traveled nearly forty miles since "tattoo" of the night before.