What must a soldier do to receive the "red badge of courage"?

I think he has to stay on the front in the midst of his company dying out or part of his squad passing and saving one

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"The title of the work itself is ironic; Henry wishes "that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage", echoing a wish to have been wounded in battle. The wound he does receive (from the rifle butt of a fleeing Union soldier), however, is not a badge of courage but a badge of shame."