The book you are referring to is “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane.
Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, the youngest of fourteen children. He had six brothers and two sisters who survived into early adulthood. Stephen Crane’s father was a Methodist minister who was already over fifty when Crane was born. His mother was also a devout Methodist who wrote for Methodist journals and papers, often in support of the temperance movement (a movement that advocated a sober lifestyle and sought to ban the sale of alcohol.
He earned a reputation as a great American novelist, poet, and short-story writer; was a forerunner of literary movements that flourished long after his death; and became a respected war reporter.
His most widely read novel, The Red Badge of Courage, from the terrible conflict called the Civil War. Sometimes called the War Between the States, the Civil War was just that, Americans were divided into two groups roughly along geographic lines.
The text’s treatment of the idea that Henry “burned several times to enlist” suggest that the Civil War:
D. It was not unusual for young men of this time to willingly enlist to fight and perhaps die in a brutal war.
