American Pageant Chapter 17 Summary

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Chapter 17: Henry waits in the trenches in the middle of the battle in anger. He is still angry of the choice that he had ran from the battle the day before. In the battle he currently is, he is starting to get his weapon ready to fight the enemies. When he heard one of the gunshots go off in the battle again, he started to shoot his rifle in a frenzy. When still shooting in a frenzy, he noticed that almost nobody in his regiment is shooting but him. One of the soldiers starts telling Henry that Looking at the battlefield, he finds out that the Confederates had fled the battle and all the soldiers in his regiment is looking at him, especially the lieutenant. The lieutenant explains “By heavens, if I had ten thousand wild cats like you I could

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