Bauer Books & Stephen Crane 
The Red Badge of Courage 

The Battle of Chancellorsville in northern Virginia 1863 is one of the bloodiest 24, 000 casualties of the war between the states, the focus of this novel. Henry Fleming a naive restless farm boy not yet a man from New York State, goes off to fight during the American Civil War. Against the tearful pleading of his widowed mother not to, Henry out of patriotism or boredom wants to join the Union Army.