Table of Contents:
  • Crane's fiction and Crane's research
  • The rifled musket: infantry combat in the Civil War
  • Private Fleming's regiment enters combat
  • Private Fleming's "well-meaning cow": the implications of Crane's literary style
  • Private Fleming and stereotypes of modern war
  • Private Fleming's evening hegira: "He must be a hero"
  • Private Fleming and Major General Hooker
  • Private Fleming and the 304th New York on May 3, 1863
  • "He was a man": "manhood" in The Red Badge of Courage
  • The Red Badge of Courage and war
  • Literature as mousetrap: the reader caught.