Through this contractual sense of enlistment relations between soldiers and their commanding officers was very close, sometimes mutinying together as with Captain Learned and his troops who mutinied together when they realized they would be detained past their enlistment date (Anderson 162-3). Leaving camp mid-winter was dangerous but “Learned clearly understood that his leadership was contingent on his men’s continuing consent” and when the regimen became lost in the snow Learned was only able to keep his command by “[admitting] his confusion and sharing what information he had… Second [expressing] his personal commitment to continuing but made no further attempt to influence their choice” (Anderson, 163). While this may have been unconventional in regular officer-troop relations Learned’s “frank appeal to the men was a necessary symbolic act” which his troops responded to even when they were starving, cold, and lost (Anderson, 163). This style of leadership can also be seen in the movie The Crossing with the Continental Army; several times troops are worn, exhausted, injured, and ready to desert. In one scene after a skirmish with the red coats George Washington wants to continue to move but some higher ranking officers are complaining of how tired the troops are (The Crossing).