However, it may be that at some time in the future, when we shall have given the redcoats a few more doses such as we administered to Lord Rawdon's troops the day after the sergeant came into camp, the opportunity will present itself for me to set down in better fashion than I have been able to do in this tale, all that was said and done when the men of Lee's Legion understood that their sergeant-major had never been in truth a deserter, but one who risked everything, even life itself, for the Cause.

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