The Red Badge of Courage

It would be hard to find fault with The Red Badge of Courage.  The main character goes from being somewhat of a selfish brat to a worthy man.  The other characters get jumbled up a bit -- I really couldn't keep track of who was who -- but that seems to be how it is in real life, unless someone has some sort of astonishing physical feature.  I've never even considered participating in a war, so I will trust others' accounts on how realistic it is.  From all that I had heard of it, I expected it to cover a longer period of time, but it put enough emotion and detail in the battlefield to make up for it.