Laura fantasizes and recalls the last few tumultuous weeks of her life while seated in the arm chair of her living room.During the train journey, Annabelle happens to be seated next to Captain Anderson - the Union spy.Along the way at their first stop - the Big Shanty train station, the train (filmed in a long shot) rolls into the station and stops "twenty minutes for dinner.]Appropriately, Joey is the first to sight the lone figure riding toward the farm.His eyes open wide in awe.As the deer moves away, Joey runs back to the cabin.He locates his father, Joe Starrett (Van Heflin), a determined, hard-working homesteader who toils doggedly to build a life on the land with his family.Krieger lowered a tethering cable/hook line to Phelps to pull him up, as the chunnel - the tunnel under the English Channel - came closer.