Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 217: what you’re looking at

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210 re CONCLUSION. ‘‘Paith, it is, please the pigs. For the sake of old acquaintance, captain—pardon me, Major Chetwood, I hope you’ll be after making my stay as easy as pos- sible.’ : ‘“‘T cannot promise you any different treatment from that accorded to your brother officers. ’’ ‘‘Faith, a gentleman and an officer nm ‘Vou will be treated with all due consideration your rank entitles you to. But permit me to state that your conduct in Charleston, as it came under my eye, was not consistent with the character of a gentleman, but rather that of a—pardon my plainness—black- guard.’’ _ Major Chetwood passed on. The reader easily perceives that our hero had been advanced in rank, for personal valor on the field of battle. Not many months later, Lee, the sole prop of the Southern cause, hemmed in by Grant, and without a single hope of succor, was forced to surrender uncon- ditionally. “Richmond has fallen!’’ — The cry was echoed throughout the length and. breadth of the nation. The weary struggle was over at last. Peace, that blessed word, was an accomplished fact. The victorious army of veterans passed through Washington and were disbanded. : A few days later Royal Chetwood and Mose parted, for the time being, the latter going to Maryland to claim the hand of Rose Anderson, one of the fairest of Maryland’s fair daughters. | Major Chetwood did not forget the promise he had made to Andy Potter, and soon after leaving the “army he sought out, in the Miami Valley, the home _of Deacon Potter, and there gave the good deacon evidence that his son had amounted to something at (E(0) Gomicbooks