| Description |
xiv, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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Acknowledgments -- Note on sources -- Ambrose Bierce on history, memory, and literature : a sole survivor -- Introduction : Fighting and writing the Civil War -- Patricide in the house divided, 1861 -- Thin blue ghost ; Battlefields and ghosts ; One kind of officer ; Mocking-bird ; Horseman in the sky ; Defending realism I ; Tough tussle ; On a mountain ; Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general ; Two fantastic fables : Equipped for service and The mysterious word ; Professional officer -- What war really is, 1862 -- What I saw of Shiloh ; Defending General Buell ; Two military executions ; On military executions ; Affair of outposts ; Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ; Coup de grace -- True war story is never moral, 1863 -- Stone's river ; Baffled ambuscade ; On military punishments ; Three and one are one ; Affair at Coulter's Notch ; Defending realism II ; George Thurston ; Story of a conscience ; Parker Adderson, philosopher ; One officer, one man ; On Chickamauga ; Chickamauga ; Little of Chickamauga ; More on Chickamauga ; Letter to Colonel Archibald Gracie ; General Wood's command ; General Grant and the poisoned chalice -- War is all hell, 1864 -- Bierce's map of the battlefield of Resaca ; Killed at Resaca ; Bierce's map of the battlefield of Pickett's Mill ; Crime at Pickett's Mill ; On General O. O. Howard ; On prayer in battle ; My dear Clara ; One of the missing ; Son of the gods : a study in the present tense ; Defending realism III ; Four days in Dixie ; What occurred at Franklin ; On General Schofield ; Body count at Franklin ; Major's tale ; Battle of Nashville : an attack of General Debility ; On black soldiering -- Phantoms of a blood-stained period, 1865 and later -- Way down in Alabam ; Other lodgers ; Resumed identity ; Nature of war ; Modern warfare ; A'soldiering for freedom ; Hesitating veteran ; Invocation ; Death of Grant ; Contentment ; Death of General Grant ; At a national encampment ; On Jefferson Davis's death ; Confederate flags ; To E. S. Salomon ; Travel letter to George ; Year's casualties ; Bivouac of the dead ; Letter from D.C. ; Fragments from last letters. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps.
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
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Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? -- Correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Duncan, Russell.
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Klooster, David J.
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| ISBN |
1558493271 alkaline paper |
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155849328X paperback alkaline paper |
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