It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
We conclude this episode with a quotation from the inimitable Dr. George DeHoff who stated that, "It is not known whether or not some of those Shiloh maidens made themselves easy to catch."[17]