![]() ![]() ![]() He was born after the Civil War and had not even experienced a fight in any war. Most critics praise this novel because of the very realistic way in which Crane was able to describe all the battle scenes in the story. After this incident, he again went back to the battlefield and was able to prove that he was really a capable solider. When he came back to their camp, the other soldiers there quickly treated his wound believing that he got it during the battle. One of them accidentally hit his head with a rifle butt and wounded him. ![]() He flees from battle in one of the skirmishes they had against the Confederates and to hide his cowardice, he attempted to inflict a wound to himself which is referred to as the “red badge of courage.” He got the wound that he wants to have when he joins a group of fellow soldiers retreating from the battlefield. In the novel, Henry was one of the enlisted soldiers in the 304th New York Regiment. The novel gained widespread praise from critics and was also a commercial success shortly after its release and made Stephen Crane an instant celebrity at the young age of 24. The Red Badge of Courage is a fiction that tells the story of a soldier named Henry Fleming during the American Civil War. ![]()
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