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Chapter 23: In the battle still, the colonel started to run to the line of soldiers. He tells the soldiers that the army should start charging to the enemies. Many orders were yelled back and forth between the soldiers from the officers in the war. Again, the army started to plan and attack and started to show more strength in the battle, and Henry kept waving the flag back and forth. He believes that the Union soldiers might defeat the Confederates in time, and Henry became the “daring spirit of a savage religion-mad” (Crane 132). The regiment saw that the flag of the Confederates with a corpse, and they thought it would be a good idea to take the enemy flag. Wilson captures the flag, and the regiment cheers for victory, and they take four

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