Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 98: what you’re looking at

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- realistic. THE CONFEDERATE’S LAST SHOT. ~ on After seeing to the young man’s comfort, Captain Chetwood went to look up the assassin. The gloom rendered his task not a pleasant or a certain one. | | He remembered the spot from whence he had seen the bright flash, and approached it cautiously, not caring to become himself the target for a shot. His caution was not necessary on this occasion. Captain Chetwood always carried matches on his person, inclosed in a water-proof safe. From this he extracted one of the lucifers and ig- ‘nited it on his clothing, then held it over his head. The sight that met the gaze of the Union captain was one that sent a thrill to his heart. Wedged in between several dead Confederates was stretched the body of a tall man, an officer, as there was the insigna on his collar. His head had fallen back now against the body of a comrade, the eyes wide open, and glassy. The lower jaw had fallen, the whole face disfigured by a hideous grin that in death was terribly The dead man’s right arm was extended across a dead body, the long, bony fingers clutching, with the tenacity of death, a five-chambered revolver. _ From this the bullet had been fired which laid Moses low, and came near terminating his life. It was the last act of a dying man. Captain Chetwood shuddered as he gazed. The match soon burned out, and darkness once more ~whelmed the scene; but, while he lived, the Union captain would not forget the sight he witnessed that night after the memorable fight on Fisher’s Hill. The hand of the dead had fired a shot that came near to the life of one of Virginia’s bravest sons. With the expiring blaze, Captain Chetwood arose to his feet—he had been crouching—and hurried back once more to the side of his wounded friend. cate (e(0) cComicbooks