Chapter 20

The regiment continues to fight and Henry and Wilson continue to fight over the flag and who is going to carry it. The regiment is getting defeated and feel as if they have been betrayed by their officers. Is being a mule driver a bad thing? Henry seems upset that his lieutentant is calling him one. Henry takes the position of the color bearer and goes to the front and Wilson once again is doubting that he will make it out alive and tells Henry goodbye. Henry tells him to shut up. Their is fighting and so much smoke that they couldn't even see their enemy. But when the smoke cleared they see the spot across from them is vacant. There is nothing but dead corpses, the enemy had once again been driven off. I think that Henry is becoming more and more of a man as the book goes on. Where did this courage and manlieness come from?