Chapter 1

The story takes place during the Civil War about a boy named Henry washing his clothes in the river and notices that the army was moving. So that following day Henry tells his mother that he wants to join the army, his mother tells him no but he decides to join, after joining he tells his mother and finally gives in telling him ok and to be a good boy. Along the way he meets Jim, a rather tall man, a youth, and a loud voiced man which his name is not known yet. When at camp Jim, youth, and the loud voiced man talked about weather they would fight or run and Jim said if people would fight, then he would fight.

I thought that henry's mother could have made more of an attempt to stop henry but did the right thing and let him go.

Questions: why hasn't the youth or the loud man have greeted themselves and said their names...