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." "Yes," returned her father, "for 'If two of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven'; and God's promises are all 'yea and amen in Christ Jesus.'" "Papa," said Horace, "how can it be that good Christian men are fighting and killing each other ?" "It is a very strange thing, my son; yet undoubtedly true that there are many true Christians on both sides.

They do not see alike, and each is defending what he believes a righteous cause." "Listen all," said Mrs.Dinsmore, who was reading a letter from Daisy, her youngest sister.
"Richard is ill in the hospital at Washington, and May has gone on to nurse him.