How does the character Henry, from The Red Badge of Courage, compare and contrast to Robert, from the movie Glory?

Aside from the fact that Henry Fleming in
The Red Badge of Courage and Robert Gould Shaw
from the movie Glory are both soldiers in the Union Army during the
American Civil War, they are very different characters. Henry is an entirely fictional
character, while Robert was a man who truly lived. Henry is much younger in age during
the course of the narrative in which we meet him, a poor young farm boy in his early
teens from the state of New York. In contrast, Robert hails from an affluent Boston
family, and is much older in the movie, a Union officer in his
mid-twenties.

Both men experience fear in their war
dealings. Henry, whose thoughts are revealed to the reader, is terrified when thrown
into battle, having had only a romantic, unreal concept about what war is really all
about. Robert feels fear as well, as expressed by his demeanor when riding his horse
along the beach before undertaking his final, fatal assignment. His fear is tempered and
controlled, however; he is an officer, a man of proven integrity and courage, no longer
callow like young Henry.

The difference in maturity between
the two characters is striking. Robert Shaw, though still young, is a leader of men,
someone who is looked up to, and upon whose shoulders rests a huge responsibility. Henry
is at the other end of the spectrum, the raw recruit who has little control over
circumstance and his response to it. Finally, Robert dies in Glory,
while Henry in Red Badge of Courage lives to fight
another day.