Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American journalist and novelist best known for “The Red Badge of Courage� (1895), a bestseller that plumbed the mind of a young soldier as he dealt with the horrors and triumphs of the Civil War. It is considered by some people to be the first detailed account of what has become known as post-traumatic stress disorder.
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At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.