Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crain
A war noevel written in the mid 1890's was claimed by civil war vets to be so authentic that they claimed that Crain must have been there which of course he hadn't as he had been born after the war ended. The story tells of a young union soldier going in untest into the battle of chanslervill. Fear stricks in a figh and he runs away then feeling shame after trying to convince himself with what he did was okay. As he wanders the battle field he is enraged when he sees another retreat he knocked unconious, when he wakes he returns to his unit and the next goes on a rampage firing at the enemy and taking the flag and charging them (a dangerious act to do). Crain highlests the emotions, horror, and glory of the american civil war and wrote a novel that would enspire another generation to fight the spanish.