Lead the way! (#4) Answer!

[yellowthornoftexas]

This was one of the best posts I've seen. Lol, I was gonna reply on your gunboat scenario but decided not to. Basically though, "Send in your Marines!" Lol

 

[M.Warren]

This was one of the best posts I've seen. Lol, I was gonna reply on your gunboat scenario but decided not to. Basically though, "Send in your Marines!" Lol

Oorah, thanks for the ride boys! I thought the same thing but know nothing about sea combat so I bit my tongue, lol..

 

[yellowthornoftexas]

LOL!!!

 

[Allie]

Ha! I should have posted, I guessed that was a friendly force! Good story, keep 'em coming, next time I will not be such a chicken about guessing.

 

[capt13th]

i wouldn't stay and fight. confederates wear kevlar and can't be be killed. i know this because i see it at every reenactment, so it must be true. i tuck tail and run and find the rest of my men. and then return to our main camp and drink beer and moonshine, and roast marshmallows

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Yes, must have been a question everyone asked until the day they all died then the conversation continued at the GAR conventions in Heaven- " Now why exactly did you people sit there like bumps on a particularly bumpy log when asked to identify yourselves? "

 

[Carronade]

You are in command of a detachment of Union Militia cavalry. Your mission is to search for and capture bushwhackers that have been reported 65 miles from your present location. Once you arrive in the area, you divide your detachment into three scouting parties and assign each party to scout separate creeks for signs of the enemy, leading one of these search parties yourself.

As you travel farther along the creek, you continually discover signs that indicate the recent presence of bushwhackers, as well as reports from local citizens of recent sightings. It is getting dark, so you decide to set up camp in a meadow near the creek - despite your concern over the recent signs of the bushwhackers presence. At 1:00 in the morning, you are awoken when your camp is approached by an unknown force that refuse to identify themselves. You estimate that you slightly outnumber them. What do you do?

(This scenario was based upon a report in the ORs. I will post the report and the outcome either Sunday or Monday, depending on the amount of responses.)

I was not online over the weekend, so this is the first time I've seen this, and without reading the rest of it, I will say that "refuse to identify themselves" means they were offered the chance. I'd call my own people to alert if they weren't already, and as soon as we ready to fire, I'd offer the stangers one more chance to clear things up....