Henry's nightmare begins with him shouting that Emerson is coming to speak to the people, but he realizes that no one is listening. The scene around him changes, and Henry now sees that he is in the middle of a war, or more specifically, the Mexican American War. In this dream, Edward Emerson is the youthful drummer boy, Sam Staples is a sergeant, and Ball is a general. As soon as Henry is offered a gun and told to fight he tells them that he won't. Williams, who is now a Mexican soldier, appears, and the American troops attack him. When he gets away, Henry is relieved, but his fellow soldiers aren't. He begs the president to stop the war, but he continues to ignore him. Lincoln, who was congressman at the time, yells that the war was unconstitutional,
