Describing the final scenes of the battles between the Nephites and the Lamanites, Mormon writes of the gathering at the land of Cumorah and of his preserving the records and hiding them up in the hill of Cumorah and delivering certain plates to his son Moroni (see Moroni 9:24). Tens and hundreds of thousands of his people have fallen in the battles surrounding Cumorah. A wounded Mormon and twenty-four others, including Moroni, are all that are left of the Nephite nation.