Author:  Stephen Crane
Pages:  108  (Available Only In Paperback)

A young boy named Henry runs away from his home on the farm and joins the Union Army during the Civil War. He imagines he will be brave and win glory, but the actual violence and terror of his first battle shock him into flight. From then on his fight is with himself as he tries to find the courage to be a soldier and also a man, and make peace with the War and his own heart and mind.