The sounds of brutal battle are muted by the trees only a short distance from the struggle, as if all the world was a peaceful quiet place, a sanctuary for him to calm his shaky nerves. Some who will not live long, including his close friend who Fleming watches fall mortally down on the ground, they ask him uncomfortable questions where was he hit ?.Leaving them as fast an unobtrusively as possible, wandering around aimlessly Henry heads for a nearby forest trying to get away from the savage war. The charging yelling mobs of rebels from out of the woods brings fear to his very soul and Fleming caring little about glory, his friends or the regiment runs away, runs like the little boy he really is only just wants to survive.Meeting many wounded soldiers in the back of the line. Wondering if he'll be brave or a coward in the conflict dominates his thoughts, finally the youth sees the ugly war. Camp life is very harsh living mostly in dirty tents little food and nothing to do, unsanitary living conditions, the constant marching to different sites the veterans call the newcomers "Fresh Fish". Some of his friends, boys he grew up with are in the 304th regiment with him. Many months pass of training and marching before Fleming gets into action. Against the tearful pleading of his widowed mother not to, Henry out of patriotism or boredom wants to join the Union Army.
Henry Fleming a naive restless farm boy not yet a man from New York State, goes off to fight during the American Civil War.
The Battle of Chancellorsville in northern Virginia 1863 is one of the bloodiest 24,000 casualties of the war between the states, the focus of this novel.
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