Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 151: what you’re looking at

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144 A SAD SCENE. one of its officers was at the front determined on doing his duty at whatever cost. CHAPTER XXVII. A SAD SCENE. It was a wild and terrible scene that fell on the eye of Captain Chetwood as he pushed his way to the - battle front. Forward with the rush of an avalanche the gray brigades came, yelling like demons let loose from the lower regions. Frightful was the uproar, awful the slaughter, as bullets and bayonets did their work, and piled the reeking sod with dead and dying. “*Hold the ground, boys; the salvation of the army depends upon you!’’ shouted the captain, as he passed along the front. 3 The crash of guns, and shrieks of the dying, wellée up from the struggling hosts. © ‘* A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus’d in clouds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.”’ - The heavy guns, some of them but lately captured, _ belched forth iron hail and hissing shell upon the Federal lines, and it was a wonder indeed that Wright was able to hold his own, and hurl back the furious charge that swept with wild fury upon him. He did hold his own. . The furious charge was turned back in repulse. — A cheer, rather of thanksgiving than of victory, welled up from the battered lines of blue, as the gray ranks receded before their fire, and rolled back some distance from the scene of the awful struggle. > comicbooks m (e(0)