Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 218: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

CONCLUSION. ~ 217 last—he had died for the Union and the flag, and was a genuine hero. | It was a year after the war ere Major Chetwood claimed the hand of Bertha McVane, and the mar- tiage took place in the wealthy home of the Mc- Vanes, at Charleston, South Carolina. The war ended sectional strife forever, let us hope, and the graves of the dead, both North and South, are watered with tears. We would say, with the poet: ‘* Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray.’’ [rH END.] m comicbooks (ele)