Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 141: what you’re looking at

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134 COLONEL TRAFTON FALLS. Stripping this from the body, Captain Chetwoood | hastened to fill it with cool water from the brook. a ll CHAPTER XXV. COLONEL TRAFTON FALLS. Chetwood had little expectation of rousing Andy Potter from the sleep which benumbed every limb. He had placed his. hand over the region of the heart, and discovered that life was not yet extinct, and it was this discovery which led the captain to work over the silent form with desperate energy. The Ohio boy had saved his life once that morn- ing, and it was no more than honest gratitude on his part to do what he could for the brave youth. With water obtained from the brook, Captain Chetwood washed the blood from the face of Andy, and carefully examined the wound. There was no fracture of the skull, the captain be- lieved. A bullet had swept along near the base of the brain, cutting the scalp badly, and causing a great flow of blood. With his handkerchief, Captain Chetwood bound up the wound, which had now ceased to bleed. A groan rewarded the efforts of the Union captain at length, andina little time Andy Potter opened his eyes, and sat up with a great cry. ‘“The hydra-heads, where be they?’ he cried, glaring about him in a fierce way, that told that the youth’s mind was still on the conflict in which he came so near his death. ‘‘You are safe, my brave boy, so ) don’t alarm your- self,’’? answered the captain, quickly. "There was a sound of guns on the left, though in comick ote oks NS