It had come by the way of Louisville through the Northern lines, and it was long and full of news.

Pendleton, she said, was a sad town in these days.

All of the older boys and young men had gone away to the armies, and many of them had been killed already, or had died in hospitals.

Here she gave names and Dick's heart grew heavy, because in this fatal list were old friends of his.
It was not alone the boys and young men who had gone, wrote Mrs.Mason, but the middle-aged men, too.

Dr.Russell had kept the Pendleton Academy open, but he had no pupil over sixteen years of age.