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government sending him on this deathmarch, then he realizes that he had enlisted voluntarily. Henry still had an idealistic thought of war and told himself that “a man became another thing in battle.”(Ch. 3) This fight proved to Henry that in battle he will stay and fight like a man. But, Henry sees soldiers retreating
and thinks to himself that maybe he has not seen the actual enemy yet. He believes that maybe the first fight was just a prelude to the one that lies ahead, and is once again scared that he will run from battle when his regiment needs him the most.
Henry is very pleased with himself that he had stood up to battle like a man and had not run like a coward. But, when Henry starts to see troops running away he becomes panicked and begins to think they are leaving him to fight the battle alone. This causes Henry to start running disillusioned and without direction. At this point Henry still has feels that war is a great heroic epic and is in great shame ...

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