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In the next few days they had cause to rejoice.
It had been a big battle, and the Confederate forces had won.
Jonathan and Ben were not on the lists of the dead or on that of the missing.
Kate and Mrs. Tussle waited for letters anxiously.
Joel went to the crest of a hill behind the house and lit an enormous victory bonfire to celebrate.
When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out, she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful.
They all prayed now that the North would realize that peace must come, for Virginia had defended her land victoriously.
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