Abstract: When Henry awakes up to the sound of the battle, he does not know where he is at. At first, he thinks that he is surrounded by corpses. He then realizes that the 'corpses' are just other soliders sleeping who soon awake up too. Wilson then cheerily talks to Henry. Henry is kind of rude to him and is angry because his head hurts. Wilson still tries to help Henry though and just kind of brushes it off. Henry notices how much Wilson as changed. He is no longer loud and kind of selfish, but rather he is more calm and tries to help Henry. Wilson seemed to have more inner confidence. Henry and Wilson then discuss yesterday's battle. Wilson thinks they put up a pretty good fight while Henry says that he saw it up close and it didn't look like they were winning. Henry also tells Wilson that Jim Conklin has died. Wilson seems to be really sad and moved by this news. When three soliders are fighting, Wilson goes over and rationalizes with them and tells them to stop fighting. Henry tells Wilson that he has noticed a change in him. Wilson doesn't really comment on it and then says that a lot of men have come back in the night. He says they were separated from the regiment just like Henry was.
Response: Just after the first battle, Wilson seems to have changed a lot. He is no longer loud and angry but calm and rationalizing. He probably thinks that he needs to save his energy for bigger and better things like the oncoming battle. He also probably changed because of the things he saw in the battle like people dying. Also what does this statement mean when Henry was thinking that it was corpses surrounding him, "He saw that this somber picture was not a fact of the present, but a mere prophecy"?
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