[59] Thomas A. Gullason is an assistant professor of English, University of Rhode Island. 1 Critics have mentioned, in some cases for a half-century, sources like Tolstoi's War and Peace and Sevastopol, Zola's La DTbdcle, Hinman's Corporal Si Klegg, Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, Kirkland's Captain of Company K, Century's Battles and Leaders, Harper's History, and Whitman's Specimen Days. One of recent critics, Daniel Hoffman, like so many before him, draws interesting parallels with earlier works; but he has no proof-because acknowledged none-of any indebtedness to literary sources. Hoffman also draws sweeping generalizations in reference to my article, Additions to Canon of Stephen Crane, NCF, XII (Sept., 1957), 157-160. There, as elsewhere, I have depended on sources acknowledged by for further illumination of Red Badge. (Also see my New Sources for Stephen War Motif, Modern Language Notes, LXXII [Dec., 1957], 572-575). When I suggested that a parade and a football game served him well for Red Badge, I did not say or imply that this was only source. Unfortunately, this is conclusion Hoffman has drawn. Finally, in disputing validity of one of my additions, Veterans' Thinner By a Year, Hoffman has demonstrated no real proof. Veterans' Ranks is in typically ironic style; The Gratitude of a Nation, which is used as Hoffman's evidence, is not in style (though Hoffman states that it is in his handwriting). See Hoffman's Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (New York, 1957) and his Crane's Decoration Day Article and Red Badge of Courage, NCF, XIV (June, 1959), 78-80. 2 Elsewhere I demonstrate importance of earlier writings, such as Henry M. Stanley, The King's Favor, and Sullivan County Sketches, on his three early novels. See my unpublished dissertation, Some Aspects of Mind and Art of Stephen Crane (University of Wisconsin, 1953). At least two critics have suggested similarities among three early novels. One sees a similarity of theme in early novels, for in each there is the movement in youth from innocence to experience, seen as degradation. See John Berryman, Stephen (New York, 1950), p. 87. In his essay on in Literary History of United States, ed. Spiller, Thorp, et al. (New York, 1949), II, 1022, Robert Spiller sees a relationship between Maggie and Red Badge: Both are impressionistic studies of elemental fear, one as shame, other as failure of courage in action. Each takes as central character a youth, impersonal and typical (their names were assigned later), facing life at its crisis, and each analyzes profound