# The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Author: Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900

Genre: US Civil War

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Red+Badge+of+Courage%3A+An+Episode+of+the+American+Civil+War+Crane&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.

## Chapters

- [Chapter I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-war-73/chapters/24/index.md)