Among the nearly 900 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails the U.S. State Department released on Friday is one that indicates she may have been confused, exhausted or careless on the September 2012 night when four Americans died in a Benghazi, Libya terror attack.

As U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other personnel lay dead and America's diplomatic outpost there lay in smoldering ruins, Clinton asked her three closest aides for advice about how to announce the death of 'Chris Smith.'

That name – the wrong one – was the subject line of the email Clinton sent them as night turned to day in Libya and the full extent of the Islamist terror attack was becoming apparent.

'Cheryl told me the Libyans confirmed his death,' Clinton, then the secretary of state, wrote. 'Should we announce tonight or wait until morning?'

OBLIVIOUS? Clinton called the late US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens by the wrong name just hours after he perished in a fiery terror attack

'CHRIS SMITH': The email chain released Friday by the Department of State has set off new discussions about Hillary's job performance before, during and after the 2012 terror attacks

'GOOD SAMARITANS': The State Department had to wait for confirmation that Stevens was dead because LIbyan bystanders had taken his lifeless body to a hospital

Cheryl Mills, then Clinton's chief of staff, replied to her and others on the chain – deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan and agency spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

'We are awaiting formal confirmation from our team,' she wrote. 'We are drafting a statement while we wait.'

A total of eight emails in the chain crisscrossed the Internet. None of Clinton's deputies corrected her or clarified whose death they were discussing.

Among the other three American personnel to die in the attack was Sean Smith, a foreign service information management officer.

But it was Stevens whose death required confirmation from Libyan authorities.

A few 'good Samaritans among the hordes of looters and bystanders,' as a State Department review later described them, took his lifeless body from the Benghazi compound and to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead from smoke inhalation.

Clinton, now a presidential candidate and the Democratic Party's front-runner, is facing new rounds of questions about her job performance before, during and after the attack.

'HAPPY': Clinton said Friday in New Hampshire that she's pleased to see her State Department emails released to the public

AMBASSADOR: Stevens (left) was greeted warmly by Libyan National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil (right) after presenting his credentials on June 7, 2012, just three months before he perished

TORCHED: Islamists with Ansar al-Shariah, a regional al-Qaeda affiliate, destroyed the US compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012

Her tightly controlled campaign schedule and movements, however, have given journalists precious few chances to ask those questions.

On Friday in New Hampshire, Clinton would only say she was happy the documents were being released.

She also offered to buy a campaign pool reporter an ice cream.

'It's on me if you want anything,' Clinton offered, but there were no takers.

The pool reporter wrote that she told Clinton 'she would like some questions answered or an interview in place of an ice cream.'

As reporters across the country pored over her emails looking for smoking guns, Clinton paid no mind.

'You have to have a little relaxing break,' she said.