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Soldiers
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Stories of the Civil War, from volume 2 of the Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce.Including A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY, AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE, CHICAMAUGA, A SON OF THE GODS,ONE OF THE MISSING, KILLED AT RESACA , THE AFFAIR AT COULTER'S NOTCH, THE COUP DE GRACE, PARKER ADDERSON PHILOSOPHER, AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS, THE STORY OF A CONSCIENCE,ONE KIND OF OFFICER, ONE OFFICER ONE MAN, GEORGE THURSTON, and THE MOCKING-BIRD.

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PublisherSeltzer Books
Release dateMar 1, 2018
ISBN9781455447015
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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American novelist and short story writer. Born in Meigs County, Ohio, Bierce was raised Indiana in a poor family who treasured literature and extolled the value of education. Despite this, he left school at 15 to work as a printer’s apprentice, otherwise known as a “devil”, for the Northern Indianan, an abolitionist newspaper. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Union infantry and was present at some of the conflict’s most harrowing events, including the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. During the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in 1864, Bierce—by then a lieutenant—suffered a serious brain injury and was discharged the following year. After a brief re-enlistment, he resigned from the Army and settled in San Francisco, where he worked for years as a newspaper editor and crime reporter. In addition to his career in journalism, Bierce wrote a series of realist stories including “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “Chickamauga,” which depict the brutalities of warfare while emphasizing the psychological implications of violence. In 1906, he published The Devil’s Dictionary, a satirical dictionary compiled from numerous installments written over several decades for newspapers and magazines. In 1913, he accompanied Pancho Villa’s army as an observer of the Mexican Revolution and disappeared without a trace at the age of 71.

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