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 annotated Warbler Classics edition also includes a detailed biographical timeline of Bierce’s extraordinary life.
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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 Occurred at Franklin
A Bivouac of the Dead
War Stories
A Horseman in the Sky
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Chickamauga
A Son of the Gods
One of the Missing
Killed at Resaca
The Affair at Coulter’s Notch
The Coup de Grâce
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
An Affair of Outposts
The Story of a Conscience
One Kind of Office
One Officer, One Man
George Thurston
The Mocking-Bird
Three and One Are One
A Baffled Ambuscade
Two Military Executions
A Resumed Identity
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
Biographical Timeline
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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 Union Army’s 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. After the war he became a regular columnist at The San Francisco Examiner and one of the most influential journalists on the West Coast. In addition to his journalistic work, he wrote piercingly about the ghastly things he had seen in the war and was a pioneer of the psychological horror story. At the age of seventy-one Bierce disappeared while joining Pancho Villa’s army as an observer of the Mexican Revolution, and, in spite of multiple investigations, his ultimate fate remains unknown.
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