He returned the salutes, congratulated them on their courage and went on.

After a long while the exhausted victors fell asleep.
* * * * That night a band of men, a hundred perhaps, entered the woods along the slopes of the Massanuttons.

They were the remains of the Invincibles.
Throughout those fatal hours they had fought with all the courage and tenacity for which they had been famous so long and so justly.

In the heat and confusion of the combat they had been separated from the other portions of Early's army, and, the Northern cavalry driving in between, they had been compelled to take refuge in the forest, under cover of darkness.

They might have surrendered with honor, but not one among them thought of such a thing.