Alma Ch57

So the story isn't over from the last chapter so I'll give a short recap: Helman is now leading an army of strong and faithful young men helping the Nephites take back some cities from the Lamanites. So far they have beat one of the more powerful armies of the Lamanites and taken prisoners. So in this chapter, Helman tells Moroni of how they took back Antiparah and Cumeni while still not loosing any of his young soldiers, but at the same time, Gid has some bad news about the prisoners.
So I'm going to continue my interpretation of Helman's letter to Moroni:
      "Hey Moroni! So Ammoron tried to bargain with me for the Lamanite prisoners but I was pretty sure we could take the city they offered as a trade without too much trouble so I told him to get lost unless he was cool with trading prisoners for prisoners (v1-2). He's stubborn, you know that, so he refused and we got the city with no problem because all the people ran away as we were preparing to fight at the end of last year (v3-5). So when this year started, we got a nice present for provisions with reinforcements, there was 6,000 from Zarahemla and 60 of them were more Ammonites joining their brothers (v6).
       "With all these provisions and reinforcements we were able to cut of the supply of food to the Lamanites in Cumeni and defend ourselves from being attacked in the night by them by just camping around the city and taking their provisions (v7-10). All these supplies we were stealing we wanted to send to support others, but it was only a few days before the Lamanites gave up and became prisoners, like a lot of prisoners, like so many we couldn't keep guard over them all, so we killed whoever tried to fight in anyway, about 2,000 in the end (v11-14). We ended up just sending them to Zarahemla with part of our army to escort them, but the mission failed...
       "The day after they left they came back because there was a Lamanites army chasing them and my young warriors fought desperately and held firm before the Lamanites regardless of how many Lamanites there were (v15-20). I believe their courage and strength came from obeying commands with exactness, and if I do say so myself, they were the reason we won even though we suffered great loss that battle (v21-23). But again, I tell you that I am convinced that the faithfulness of their mothers is saving their lives because not a single one of the 2,060 was dead, sure there were 200 fainted from blood loss and everyone was wounded in some way, but they all were preserved by the power of God (v24-27).
        "So after the craziness stopped, Gid reported back with what happened with the prisoners. He says that on his way, his spies saw the Lamanites coming for the city of Cumeni and told him, but the Lamanites overheard and got all rebellious and there were just too many of them (v28-33). Gid said more than half were slain, but some fled to join the Lamanites army as it came towards Cumeni, so their last choice was to flee and warn us to prepare for them (v34). Good thing he did too because we would have been caught by surprise and might not have made it, The Lord has shown us mercy and blessed us with deliverance and success (v35)."
Moroni is all sorts of ecstatic to hear about the successes and blessings of God to his fellow Nephites. He also prays for the souls that have passed to have rest with God (v36).