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Red Badge Of Courage: An Undeniable Setting
The Red Badge of Courage setting is during an unnamed battle during the Civil War. Crane deliberately never mentions the place, the date, or e en the fact that the war is the one between the states. However, from The Veteran, the sequel to Red Badge, we know that the Battle in question is actually the aforementioned Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia in

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