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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce (New York: Citadel Press, 1946) Ambrose Bierce's Civil War, William McCann, ed. (Chicago: Gateway Editions, 1956) The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader, Brian St. Pierre, ed. (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Selected Works (Des Moines: Perfection Form ...
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William T. Sherman George H. Thomas, who in 1846 fought at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, for which Resaca, Georgia was named. On April 30, Sherman commanded the Military Division of the Mississippi and gathered a field army numbering 110,000 soldiers of which 99,000 were available for "offensive purposes". [1]
Ambrose Bierce mentioned being at Philippi Races. He had enlisted as a private in Company C. Years later, in 1903, Bierce revisited the town. He recalled that visit and the battle in a 1904 piece written for the Eighth Annual Reunion of the 9th Indiana, noting that the Union battery involved "did nothing worse than take off a young Confederate ...
Chickamauga, first diesel powered tug boat built in the United States; Chickamauga Cherokee, a band of the Native American tribe following chief Dragging Canoe "The Rock of Chickamauga", a nickname for Gen. George Henry Thomas, from his service in the Battle of Chickamauga
The Man and the Snake" is a short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It tells of a man who dies of fright inspired by a toy snake with buttons for eyes. The story was published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 29, 1890.
Editor Blume shows that Bierce preferred the original sequence of 19 stories for his book and uses Bierce's handwritten notes on his original pasteup to eliminate errors introduced in the printing of the first edition, making this the first corrected edition. 89-page appendix presents Bierce's writings elsewhere relevant to each individual story.
"Killed at Resaca" is a short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. First published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 5, 1887, [1] it was later included in Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians in 1891. [2]