Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 142: what you’re looking at

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[ SY , 3 COLONEL TRAFTON FALLS. 135, their present postition they were unable to see the conflict. ‘The fight still goes on,’? muttered Andy Potter. ‘“By gracious! colonel, I can’t stand this,’’ and the young Ohioan sprang to his feet, only to reel and sink back to earth, weak and fainting. Yes, the boy had fainted, and lay once more a dead weight in the arms of Captain Chetwood. ‘Poor boy!’ murmured the captain. ‘‘The excite- ment was too much for him in his weak condition. I must see about getting him off the field, and to a place of safety. We are not safe here, as the enemy may sweep over this ground at any moment.’’ Seizing the fainting youth about the waist, Cap- tain Chetwood was about to lift him from the ground, when a loud shout attracted his attention. Releasing his burden, he crouched low, and clutched the revolver which he had fottnd on the person of a dead officer but a short time before, his own having been, as the reader remembers, shot from his hand in the heat of battle. A ringing cheer swept up from a partially wooded field to the right, and a squad of Confederate cavalry dashed across the open field, making toward the spot where the sound of conflict was still heard. Captain Chetwood hoped to remain unseen, and, therefore, crouched very close to the ground. About. half way along the base of the hill had the cavalry passed, when an officer suddenly wheeled his horse from the line and rode directly toward the spot occupied by Captain Chetwood and his charge. ‘Ah, that fellow chooses to rush upon his doom,”’ uttered the Union captain, through close shut teeth. On spurred the Confederate—an officer of rank, as the captain soon discovered. | Evidently, he was intent on gaining the summit of the hill for the purpose of taking observations. GComicbooks (e(e)