The Red Badge of Courage starts out with a young man, Henry Fleming, wanting to enlist in the army to become a hero. His mother tries to discourage him from doing this, but when she sees that Henry is going through with it, she gives him her blessing. Henry joins his new regiment for the Union army and they wait around for their first battle of war. He befriends two fellow soldiers named Jim Conklin and a loud obnoxious soldier named Wilson. Jim Conklin, hears some rumors about their next movements by going around the enemy and attacking them from behind. A few days later, they start marching and they attack. Henry soon finds out he is sc
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