Peyton decides to approach the man about the stockade built at Owl Creek bridge. “Suppose a man--a civilian and student of hanging--should elude the picket post and perhaps get the better of the sentinel,” said Farquhar, smiling, “what could he accomplish?””(Ambrose 3) From this point and on we can get the sense Peyton has already been planning to aid in service for the south. In which he has no shame in doing anything he can to help. Little does Peyton know is the soldier he just talked to was an undercover Federal scout. This puts his words engraved into the scouts mind, who is ready to report to his Sergeant about a possible
Peyton decides to approach the man about the stockade built at Owl Creek bridge. “Suppose a man--a civilian and student of hanging--should elude the picket post and perhaps get the better of the sentinel,” said Farquhar, smiling, “what could he accomplish?””(Ambrose 3) From this point and on we can get the sense Peyton has already been planning to aid in service for the south. In which he has no shame in doing anything he can to help. Little does Peyton know is the soldier he just talked to was an undercover Federal scout. This puts his words engraved into the scouts mind, who is ready to report to his Sergeant about a possible