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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Crane, Stephan

Crane, Stephan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Brief Summary Of The Red Badge Of Courage

I. [Before The Battle] - Chapters 1 - 3:

As the book opens an army (identified only as the "soldiers in blue") is
encamped on the banks of a river (unspecified, though it is apparently the
Rappahannock since Crane seems to have modeled the forthcoming battle mainly
on the Battle of Chancellorsville). A certain "tall soldier" reports to his
comrades that they are going to move in behind the enemy on the next day, and
all begin (in their ignorance) to debate the issue and trade opinions. A
certain "youthful private" ...

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