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Civil War, Henry is fighting on the Union Side
The American Civil War was described in The Red Badge of Courage. Crane wrote the book after the Civil War was over and apparently based the occurrences of the novel on accounts of the Civil War that were published in a newspaper. An argument can be made, however, that Crane wanted to make the book "universal" (meaning that it could apply to anyone or any war) although the setting remains the Civil War. Some people claim that Crane originally did not name the main character (Private Henry Fleming) and called him The Youth for the whole book so that it could be more universal but his publisher asked him to change it. But whatever way you look at it, The Red Badge of Courage describes the American Civil War. And the novel is so compelling in that it brings the reader to what war is really like, not a glamorius adventure.

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