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The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
An Episode of the American Civil War
Chapter 1
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs
revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape
changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to
tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the
roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper
thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled
at the army's feet; and at