Where is he now, I wonder, poor
fellow?"
Ah, though she knew it not, he was then lying cold in death upon the
bloody field of Shiloh.
There had been news now and then from their Northern friends and
relatives. Richard Allison had recovered from his wound, and was again in
the field. Edward was with the army also; Harold, too, and Philip Ross.
Lucy was, like many others who had strong ties in both sections and their
armies, well-nigh distracted with grief and fear.
From their relatives in the South the last news received had been that of
the death of Dick Percival, nor did any further news reach there until the
next November. Then they heard that Enna had been married again to another
Confederate officer, about a year after her first husband's death; that
Walter had fallen at Shiloh, that Arthur was killed in the battle of Luka,
and that his mother, hearing of it just as she was convalescing from an
attack of fever, had a relapse and died a few days after.
Great was the grief of all for Walter; Mr. Dinsmore mourned very much for
his father also, left thus almost alone in his declining years. No
particulars were given in regard to the deaths of the two young men.
"Oh," cried Elsie, as she wept over Walter's loss, "what would I not give
to know that he was ready for death! But surely we may rejoice in the hope
that he was; since we have offered so much united prayer for him.
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