Whatever was under that hat remained the secret of its owner.
They descended the mountains and came to a railway station, where many cars were waiting.

Troops were hurried aboard expecting to start for Richmond, and then a sudden roar burst from them.

The trains did not move toward Richmond, but back, through defiles that would lead them again into their beloved valley.

Cheers one after another rolled through the trains, and Harry, who was in a forward car with the Invincibles, joined in as joyfully as the best Virginian of them all.
The boy was so much exhausted that he fell into a doze on a seat.

But afterward he dimly remembered that he heard the two colonels talking.
They were trying to probe into the depths of Jackson's mind.