red badge of courage
... Author Stephen Crane wrote a book called The Red Badge of Courage that deals with this idea. ... Henry is a young man, who eagerly enlists in the army at the beginning of The Red Badge of Courage. ... When he asks why they are running several times over, one soldier finally hits Henry in the head with the butt of his rifle, giving him his first Red Badge of Courage, or wound. ... Most of the soldiers in The Red Badge of Courage become afraid of the war, and run from it at some point or another.