How can you tell that Henry and the others feel angry as they fight? Why are they so angry? Are they angry with the enemy- men they have never met?

Finally, Henry sees a battle and, at first, participates almost without thinking. He moves from thought to action, and from individual to member of a community:

“He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part--a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country--was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand.” (31)

Here, Henry becomes part of the army, which subverts individual need for the desire of the group. It does not matter what exactly the group is – a regiment, an army, a cause or a country. There is a greater organism than Henry and, as a part of it, he fights for their preservation as much as his own