...o prevent a surprise. Colonel Hunton replied: Your suggestion is a good one, and I will adopt it at once, trusting you to act for me as commissary and quartermaster for the time being. He sent Sergeant Amos Slaymaker , Private Hansbrough and four others whose names have escaped my memory, to my house with orders to keep a strict watch night and day, and to report to him at once so soon as any Federal advance was s...