Journalist, short story writer, poet, and critic Ambrose Bierce has been called one of America’s greatest wits and an uncompromising satirist. He wrote unsparingly and with haunting realism of his Civil War experiences. His finest and most famous Civil War writings are gathered in this volume of six essays and twenty stories, including ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, ‘ ‘What I Saw of Shiloh, ‘ and ‘A Horseman in the Sky.’ Edited and introduced by William Mc Cann, this annota...
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Contents
Introduction
War Memoirs
On a Mountain
What I Saw of Shiloh
A Little of Chickamauga
The Crime at Pickett’s Mill
Four Days in Dixie
What O...
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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?) was one of the leading men of letters in nineteenth-century America and a Civil War veteran. He served as a first lieutenant in the Un...