![]() ![]() The Red Badge of Courage has become one of the mostly widely read and influential war stories of all time. The title itself is born from his longing for a battle wound, a "red badge of courage", to help conceal his cowardice after he fled from a battle while overcome with fear. His best known novel is, of course, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) an impressionistic novel about Henry Fleming, a soldier participating in the Civil War who experiences and struggles with cowardice and bravery on the field of battle. Though he never fought in battle himself, he created stories about the battlefield that were so realistic that veterans reading his work thirty years after the war had ended praised it for its realism and ability to capture the true feelings and images of combat. ![]() Yet his fame and fortune were interwoven with that war. American novelist, short story writer, and poet Stephen Crane was born November 1st, 1871 six years after the American Civil War had ended. ![]()
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