Some men like Captain Stamford and Major Curtis came in alone during the night. Some of the officers tried to induce the Marines to send rescue parties to the convoy. Curtis, for instance, upon arrival at the Marine perimeter, asked to see General Hodes, whom he supposed to be at Hagaruri, to get help for the motor column. But 1st Lt. Rollin W. Skilton, a 7th Division liaison officer with the Marines who went to the perimeter to give Curtis transportation, took him to an aid station and told him that “Hodes was attacking at sun-up.”