Crow had returned to the camp and ordered everyone to “gather "round.” Crow, with Stump standing next to him, addressed the men: “We have a force of around two hundred Rebs camped a mile from here. They have a picket line, which means about forty-seven men. One of those men is an officer. If it is possible, I want all of the pickets captured alive but if you have to kill, do it quietly. But, I want that officer alive; we need all the information we can get from him. Are there any questions?” The men stood silent, “Then let"s do it!”
The Wolf Pack silently gathered in the woods two hundred yards from the picket line. The prisoner was again tied hand and foot and then gagged. Stump assigned men to watch the horses and the prisoner; the rest quickly broke up into pre-assigned teams. After re
