1 But hideous rumors that Lee was killed, the battle lost, and enormous casualty lists coming in, fled up and down the quiet streets like darting bats.
2 Every day she had read the casualty lists, read them with her heart in her throat, knowing that the world would end if anything should happen to him.
3 The first reports were "Missing--believed killed" and so they appeared on the casualty list.
4 When "Missing--believed captured" appeared on the casualty lists, joy and hope reanimated the sad household.
5 She thought again of the four Tarletons and Joe Fontaine, of Raiford Calvert and the Munroe brothers and all the boys from Fayetteville and Jonesboro whose names she had read on the casualty lists.
6 There were others who had read on casualty lists: "Missing--believed dead," and in those words had learned the last news they were ever to learn of men they had seen march away.
7 Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
8 One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.
9 But this critical act is not always unattended with the saddest and most fatal casualties.
10 They loved and sympathized with one another; and their joys, depending on each other, were not interrupted by the casualties that took place around them.