Chapter XV Summary

When Henry woke up, he felt like he had been asleep for a thousand years. He looked around him and the bodies of the sleeping men were so still that for a few moments he thought he was surrounded by corpses. Then he came to his senses and recognized the motionless men as those of his regiment. A fire crackled close by and he could hear the bugle calls in camps all over the forested area.

He sat up slowly and tentatively touched the bandaged wound on his head. His friend asked him how he felt and he said that he was in pretty bad shape. His friend had hoped he would be better this morning and moved to check his bandage. Henry raged at his clumsiness and his friend backed off and suggested that he would feel better if he...