Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 96: what you’re looking at

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THE CONFEDERATE’S LAST SHOT, °* | 89 to-night he had a nervous feeling all over, and left the lieutenant, descanting to the empty air, early in the narrative, to look for his missing friend. Leaving his horse in charge of one of his men, Moses made his way over the bloody field on foot. ‘“Halloo!’ A voice came to the young mountaineer through the gloom. The voice sounded strangely familiar. Quickly Moses made his way forward. ‘“Where are you?”’ He paused to ask the question at length. ‘Here. Is that you, Moses ?”’ It was the voice of Captain Chetwood, and the Vir- ginia ranger was soon at the captain’s side. “Are you badly hurt, Royal?’’ questioned the youth, as he discovered Chetwood reclining on the eround near a cannon. “No, just stunned a bit. But I’m wedged in under some of these bodies..”’ Quickly Moses Bluff sprang to the side of his friend and extricated him from his position. The captain, it proved, had only been stunned by a fragment of shell, and was now scarcely the worse for his fall. His sword lay near, and seeing this, the Union captain was, like Richard of old, himself again. ‘(Where are the Confederates?’’ asked Chetwood, as he stood leaning on his sword in the gloom. ‘“Rled like frightened sheep,’’ answered Moses, with a low laugh. “Ves, I remember ; they were running when I fell. You came out unscathed, it seems. ’”? ‘“Fntirely so.’? A slight sound to the left caused the two men to glance in that direction. It was a groan or an oath from a wounded soldier. ‘Take that, you Yankee dog!”’ Tne red flash of a pistol was almost sc arilfanegee with its ringing report. | comicbooks.co