Corporal Burt: Not unless I saw something suspicious from the road. I would expect the main body of the patrol to do that.
Captain: Don't you make any change on account of the woods you are passing?
Corporal Burt: No, sir. It has very heavy underbrush and we would lose valuable time trying to search through it. A large force of the enemy would hardly hide in such a place.
Captain: Sergeant Allen, you reach the road fork. What do you do?
Sergeant Allen: I would have two men go into the Morey house to question anyone they found there. I would order one of the other two men to trot up (north) that road 200 yards and wait until I signaled to him to return. With the other man I would await the result of the inspection of the Morey house. Corporal Burt should have gone ahead without orders to the cut in the road across Long Ridge, leaving Brown half way between us. ([Pars. 987] to 996.)
Captain: You find no one at the Morey house.
Sergeant Allen: I would signal the man to the north to come in. I would then order two men to "find a gate in the fence and trot up on that hill (indicating Long Ridge), and look around the country and join me down this road." ([Par. 968].) I would then start south at a walk, halting at the cut to await the result of the inspection on the country from the hill.
Captain: Foster, you and Lacey are the two men sent up on Long Ridge. When you reach the hilltop you see four hostile cavalrymen trotting north on the Valley Pike, across the railroad track.
Private Foster: I signal like this (enemy in sight), and wait to see if they go on north. ([Par. 978].) Do I see anything else behind or ahead of them?
Captain: You see no other signs of the enemy on any road. Everything looks quiet. The hostile cavalrymen pass the Baker house and continue north.