What are key quotes from chapters 11 and 15 of The Red Badge of Courage? I am looking for quotes that demonstrate Henry's feelings and thoughts...

One of the key quotes for me from Chapter 11 concerns
Henry watching the battle progressing from the safety of the sidelines and how the duty
and bravery of the soldiers he watches impresses him so much that he is even more aware
of his lack of bravery and courage. Note what this quote tells us about
Henry:

As the
youth looked at them the black weight of his woe returned to him. He felt that he was
regarding a procession of chosen beings. The separation was as great to him as if they
had marched with weapons of flame and banners of sunlight. He could never be like them.
He could have wept in his
longing.

We still see in this
quote therefore that Henry is obsessed by his desire to prove himself to be brave in
battle as he imagines it. The soldiers he is so impressed by are viewed by him as
"chosen beings" and he almost wants to weep at the perceived gap between himself and the
soldiers he idolises.

In Chapter 15, I would probably
choose the last paragraph, where he feels superior to Wilson after returning his letter
to him, and begins to imagine the glory and praise he will receive back home when he
tells friends and family his stories:

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He saw his gaping audience picturing him as the
central figure in blazing scenes. And he imagined the consternation and the ejaculations
of his mother and the young lady at the seminary as they drank his recitals. Their vague
feminine formula for beloved ones doing brave deeds on the field of battle without risk
of life would be
destroyed.

From the start of
the novel, Henry has sought the praise and attention of others through his hero status,
and here we see him doing precisely the same thing, as he glories in the heroic status
that he has not actually yet achieved. We still seem him fixated on a romantic and
innacurate notion of battle that experiences have yet to take
away.