the governor observing a general discontent in the wake regiment as he passed along the front rank of the battalion , seeing that not more than one man in five had arms , and finding that upon his calling on them to turn out as volunteers in the service , they refused to obey , ordered the army to surround the battalion ; which being effected he directed three of his colonels to draft out forty of the most sightly and most active men , which manouvre caused no small panic in the regiment , consisting at the time of about four hundred men .