Chamberlain and his men have spent the night on Big Round Top. He has kept moving to keep the pain in his leg down. At dawn, Chamberlain climbs a tree on the crest where he can see the movements and campfires of both armies as they awaken. He smells coffee. But his camp has no coffee, no food, and no ammunition.
He has had men on guard all night. Joined by the 83rd Pennsylvania and the 44th New York, Chamberlain has changed the pickets every two hours and had them report to him every half hour.
He thinks of his wife again, and her red robe. He thinks of his children, how he was a teacher a year earlier, and how hard it will be to go back to normal life after yesterday's experience.
Tom joins him with some coffee taken off a dead soldier. They talk of the battle, of how proud Tom is of his older brother, of how good the attacking men were, and of winning the war. Tom mentions how he just couldn't use his bayonet on a man. He noticed that very few of the men could.
