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After crossing the gully, and walking on through the woods for what / they thought a safe distance, they turned into the path.
They were talking very merrily about the General and Hugh and their / friend Mills, and were discussing some romantic plan for the recapture / of their horses from the enemy, when they came out of the path into / the road, and found themselves within twenty yards of a group of / Federal soldiers, quietly sitting on their horses, evidently guarding / the road.