Understanding The Red Badge of Courage: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents Book

	Introduction
1	Literary Analysis of The Red Badge of Courage: Initiation or Irony?	1
2	The Civil War Setting of the Novel	23
	From: "'That Was at Chancellorsville': The Factual Framework of The Red Badge of Courage,"	35
	From: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg	46
	From: The American War of Secession 1863	48
	From: "The Chancellorsville Campaign," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	49
	From: "The Successes and Failures of Chancellorsville," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	50
	From: "Hooker's Comments on Chancellorsville," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	52
	From: The Story of a Great Conflict	55
	From: "The Charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	55
	From: "The Charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	56
	From: "Keenan's Charge"	58
3	Desertion in The Red Badge of Courage	63
	From: "The American War of Secession 1863," in The Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg	75
	From: "Hooker's Comments on Chancellorsville," in The Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	77
	From: Chancellorsville	79
	From: "When Stonewall Jackson Turned Our Right," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	83
	From: "The Official Report of General Carl Schurz, and His Letter to General Hooker," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	85
	From: "The Guilty Deserter," in The Romance of the Civil War	87
	From: "The Veteran," McClure's Magazine	90
	From: "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed," Century Magazine	94
4	The Battlefield and Its Effects	101
	From: Sketches of the War	108
	From: Letters from Two Brothers Serving in the War for the Union	113
	From: A Private Chapter of the War	115
	From: A Drummer-Boy's Diary	117
	From: "The Wound-Dresser," in Leaves of Grass	119
	From: "Wounds That Never Heal," West County Times	121
	From: "Fifty Years of Terror and Loss,"	128
	From: "Night Patrol Never Ends," West County Times	135
	From: "In Battle in the Pacific: An Interview with Sam Turner,"	137
5	The Soldier's Life in Camp	147
	From: My Days and Nights on the Battlefield	152
	From: A Drummer-Boy's Diary	155
	From: "Camp Life (1862)," in The Romance of the Civil War, ed. Albert Bushnell Hart	157
	From: "On the Way to War," in The Romance of the Civil War	158
	From: Through Four American Wars	160
	From: "Off for the Front (1862)," in The Romance of the Civil War, ed. Albert Bushnell Hart	161
	From: "Hardtack and Coffee (1866)," in The Romance of the Civil War, ed. Albert Bushnell Hart	162
	From: "On the March (1861)," in The Romance of the Civil War, ed. Albert Bushnell Hart	164
	From: "A Turkey for a Bedfellow (1863)," in The Romance of the Civil War, ed. Albert Bushnell Hart	166
	From: An Artilleryman's Diary	167
	From: Army Life	169
6	The Red Badge of Courage as an Antiwar Novel	175
	From: "XIV," in The Black Riders and Other Lines	182
	From: "XXVII," in The Black Riders and Other Lines	182
	From: "69," in War Is Kind	183
	From: The War Prayer	185
	From: Pledge of the War Resisters International, 1921	189
	From: "Against War: An Interview with Dick Brown,"	192
	Index	205