how one member's name was changed from Dunlap to d'Unlap to d'Un Lap and called Peterson Dunlap and because of this genius he was put in charge of naming the different camps (Twain 145-6). Another member sees the military expedition as "simply a holiday" while the narrator simply wanted a change of scenery (Twain, 146). It is hard for the reader to take the soldiers and the purpose of the war seriously when the soldiers themselves do not take the war seriously.
It is quite evident that the war these men experience is not a fair representation of what war is. When they approach a farm-house
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