Here the train, loaded with Confederate troops, remained for some time, and _the secret_ was discovered by the released prisoners.

General Lee was reenforcing Jackson, in order that the latter might march on Washington.

Such was the report carried to General McClellan, and it seems to have really deceived him.

[Footnote: "I have no doubt Jackson has been reenforced from here."-- _General McClellan to President Lincoln, June 20th_.] Whiting's division reached Lynchburg, and was thence moved by railway to Charlottesville--Jackson marched and countermarched with an elaborate pretence of advancing down the Valley--at last, one morning, the astute Confederate, who kept his own counsels, had disappeared; he was marching rapidly to join Lee on the Chickahominy.

Not even his own soldiers knew what direction they were taking.