Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 206: what you’re looking at

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A STRANGE OCCURRENCE. 199 rounded lifted up their heads and joined faintly in the cheers. “We've licked ’em! Tell dad, and—and Ree | that I died fur the old flag.” ‘‘T will, my boy.’? The face of Andy Potter seemed illuminated with — a sudden light, a look not of pain, but of gladness, seemed stealing over every feature. Captain Chetwood bent low over the moving lips — that now uttered words too low to be heard far by mortal ears. ‘They have come—don’t you see them—brave — boys who have died fur the flag? They come, they — come, and—and I am going over—over——’’ The faint whisper perished on the trembling lips. With a faint smile irradiating his sallcw, homely countenance, the Buckeye boy breathed his last. One more martyr, but one of thousands sacrificed, that the Union of our fathers might live. ‘“He has gone. A braver soul never struck a blow for the Union,’’ uttered Captain Chetwood, as he rose to his feet, and stood with folded arms, looking = down into the face of the dead young soldier. ‘(He fit like a tiger, captain; I can swear to that!” cried Sim J ohnson, with em phasis. Captain Chetwood soon walked from the spot, and stood leaning against a tree, lost in pained thought. By killing Colonel Trafton he had forever alienated the affections of Bertha McVane whom he felt he loved dearer than ever. But then, what did it matter? As the colonel’s wife she could never have been anything to him. “‘T will visit Clymore’s to-morrow,’’ muttered the young captain, ‘‘and tell Bertha how Colonel Trafton a came to die. I will not leave her 1 in doubt as to the # time and manner of his death.’ . x x XK x x x x ”y The battle known in history as Cedar Creek or comicbooks (ele)