Yankee Guard: Where are you going, sir?
Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': I'm taking this child to her father just beyond our lines. Colonel Morrison sent me. Here's his pass.
Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Have you got a little girl, mister?
Yankee Guard: No, I've got a boy. Where'd you come from?
Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Cary's plantation.
Yankee Guard: Why aren't you using the main roads?
Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': We'd heard about Cary going the other way.
Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: How old's your little boy?
Yankee Guard: Five.
Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Oh, I'm six.
Yankee Guard: My boy's bigger than you. This looks all right, but I don't know. We have special orders to be on the watch for Captain Cary, a rebel scout.
Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Didn't you hear? They caught him this morning.
Yankee Guard: They did?
Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Yes, Morrison and his men, at his own plantation.
Yankee Guard: That's all right, then, go ahead.

James Henry: Ain't you a speck afraid, Miss Virgie?
Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: No, I'm not! What are you afraid of them for?
James Henry: Oh, Miss Virgie, them Yankees is mighty powerful. They can even change the weather.
Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Really?
James Henry: Whenever they come around, I don't know whether it's winter or summer. I start shivering and sweating at the same time.