sentences:  They intended to protect the University but continued to retreat after a two-day pause.Lacking further defenses, Chapel Hill citizens resolved to save the town by surrendering peacefully.Wilson Caldwell walked out with University President Swain, Judge W. H. Battle and others to the "foot of Piney Prospect to meet the incoming detachment of [General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick's] cavalry, in order to claim protection for the town and the University."