Understanding The Red Badge of Courage: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction ix
• 1 - Literary Analysis of the Red Badge of Courage: Initiation or Irony? 1
• Notes 19
• Bibliography 22
• 2 - The Civil War Setting of the Novel 23
• 3 - From Harold R. Hungerford, "'That Was at Chancellorsville': The Factual Framework of the Red Badge of Courage" 35
• Endnotes Page 44
• 4 - From Abner Doubelday, Chancellorville and Gettysburg (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882, p. 71) 46
• 5 - From Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, The American War of Secession 1863: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (London: Ruskin House, 1911, pp. 53-66) 47
• 6 - From Major-General Darius N. Couch, "The Chancellorsville Campaign," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 154-171) 49
• 7 - From Major-General Alfred Pleasonton, "The Successes and Failures of Chancellorsville," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 172-182) 50
• 8 - Hooker's Defense Against Charges of Incompetence 51
• 9 - Sacrifice at Hazel Grove: Johnson, Huey, and Wells 54
• 10 - From General Pennock Huey, "The Charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalary," in Battles and Leaders of the (New York: Century Co., 1884, p. 186) 55
• 11 - From Captain Andrew B. Wells, "The Charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Calvalry," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 187-188) 56
• 12 - George Parsons Lathrop, "Keenan's Charge" (1863) 58
• TOPICS FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN EXPLORATION 61
• Suggested Readings 62
• Desertion in the Red Badge of Courage 63
• From Colonel P. H. Dalviac, "The American War of Secession 1863," in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg 75
• From James Beace, Chancellorsville 79
• From John Collins, "When Stonewall Jackson Turned Our Right," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 183-185) 83
• A Defense from the Offical Report of General Carl Schurz 84
• From George H. Gordon, "The Guilty Deserter," in the Romance of the Civil War (New York: Macmillan, 1903, pp. 156-159) 87
• Stephen Crane, "The Veteran" (McClure's Magazine VII [August 1896,], 222-224) 90
• From Mark Twain, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (Century Magazine [1885], 1-15) 94
• TOPICS FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN DISCUSSION 99
• Suggested Readings 99
• The Battlefield and Its Effects 101
• Slaughter on the Battlefield 108
• Letters from Two Brothers from the Front 112
• Carnage in the Battle of Atlanta 115
• William Bircher 117
• The Battlefield Hospital: Walt Whitman 118
• The Horrors of War in the Twentieth Century: John Boudreau 120
• From John Boudreau, "Fifty Years of Terror and Loss" 128
• From John Boudreau, "Night Patrol Never Ends" 135
• In Battle in the Pacific: Sam Turner 136
• TOPICS FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN PRESENTATION 146
• Suggested Readings 146
• 5 - The Soldier's Life in Camp 147
• From Charles Carleton Coffin, My Days and Nights on the Battlefield (Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1865, pp. 24-30) 152
• William Bircher: A Drummer-Boy's Diary 154
• From James Kendall Hosmer, "Camp Life (1862)," in the Romance of the Civil War, Ed. Albert Bushnell Hart 157
• James Kendall Hosmer: " On The Way To War" 158
• From William Henry Bisbee, Through Four American Wars 160
• George F. Noyes: "Off For The Front" 161
• John D. Billings: "Hardtack and Coffee" 162
• Carlton McCarthy: "On The March" 164
• James Kendall Hosmer: "A Turkey For A Bedfellow" 166
• Jenkin Lloyd James: An Artilleryman's Diary 167
• From Albert O. Marshall, Army Life: From a Soldier's Journal (Joliet, Ill.: Printed for the Author, 1883, pp. 16, 17, 25, 27-28) 169
• TOPICS FOR WRITTEN AND ORAL EXPLORATION 172
• Suggested Readings 172
• 6 - The Red Badge of Courage as an Antiwar Novel 175
• Notes 181
• STEPHEN CRANE, "XIV," IN THE BLACK RIDERS AND OTHER LINES 182
• Stephen Crane, "XIV," In The Black Riders And Other Lines 182
• Stephen Crane, "69" ("Do Not Weep, Maiden For War is Kind") 183
• Samuel Clemens, The War Prayer (New York: Harper and Row, 1923) 185
• Pledge of the War Resisters International 189
• "Againt War: An Interview with Dick Brown" (April 9, 1997) 192
• TOPICS FOR WRITTEN AND ORAL EXPLORATION 202
• Suggested Readings 202
• Index 205
• About the Author 211

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