When Henry's regiment returns to their camp, all of the other soldiers make fun of them for running away during the battle. Henry's unit becomes very angry when the other soldiers say this, they were proud of themselves and now all of it is gone. While they are talking Henry looks back at the distance they had to march in battle, at the time it seemed very far, but now he realizes that it was actually a very short distance.Then the same officer that called them mule drivers comes to them and yells at them for their bad behavior, and then calls them mud diggers. This makes the men very mad and they start blaming their commanders.While the soldiers are complaining some of the men come up to Henry and Wilson and tell them that they heard the commander telling the general that he thinks they are the best fighters in the regiment. They pretend not to care, but really they are very excited and gain a lot of confidence from that huge compliment.
The soldiers felt so proud of themselves and then the other soldiers just tore that away from them when they were making fun of them.
Why does the general get so mad when they didn't lose the battle?
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