Answer:
The correct answer is A. B. D. Because she told me so I have to fix it before it got confusing.
Explanation:
Probably
The man whose hands were tied and whose fate was on the plank as he stared at the stream below him, reminiscing his life, would have been part of the confederate army whose post was ambushed by Union soldiers while they were asleep. It might've been on the point where he held out for some time but instead cracked under pressure and told the Union soldiers all that he knew. The captain or sergeant or colonel ordered his execution, thus the situation which the passage mentioned. This may or may not be the Union soldiers led by Colonel Abel D. Streight.
Basis:
1) The mentioning of Alabama, one of the places of battle during the Civil War where it was mentioned that Col. Streight was in charge of Union Troops back in ca. 1862.
2) The describing (or discreet mentioning) of the Federal Army. The Federal Army is the northern army of the Civil War, hence the Civil War setting.
Paraphrasing means to write something in our own words, that expresses the original idea of the text. The best paraphrase of the passage would be: "It is always dark where the Men of Winter live."