Chapter 2

Characters: Wilson- He is a soldier in Henry's regiment. It turns out that what Jim and the rest of the town told Henry and the other soldiers was not true. There was not a battle and the wait continued. The beginning of this chapter tells about Henry's regiment being given orders to start marching. The soldiers do not know when they will start fighting. Henry begins to struggle to find confidence in his desire to fight and he also questions his his courage. He no longer wants to be a soldier and says he wishes he was still working at the farm and that he is not fit to be a soldier. He then asks a man named Wilson if he fears that he will run when the fighting starts. The man laughs at him and says he would never run. This makes Henry feel worse and he then goes to bed feeling scared and nervous. Why did he enlist in the war if he didn't know for sure that he wanted to be a soldier?