num_pages: 284
description: Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it--on the front lines, across the battlefields, and over the graves--and in so doing gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon.The fact that some of these stories verge on the supernatural, others on factual reporting, and others on the fine line between humor and morbidity in no way detracts from their resonance to both the history of the war between the states and the imaginative historical literature of America begun by Washington Irving.Shadows of Blue &amp; Gray collects all of Bierce's Civil War stories and also includes six excerpts from his memoirs recalling his experiences on the front lines.--front flapChickamaugaA Horseman in the SkyParker Adderson, PhilosopherAn Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeTwo Military ExecutionsThe Mocking-BirdA Tough TussleThe Major's TaleA Son of the GodsA Man with Two LivesOne of the MissingThe Coup de GraceKilled at ResacaThe Affair at Coulter's NotchAn Affair of OutpostsOne Kind of OfficerOne Officer, One ManGeorge ThurstonThree and One Are OneA Baffled AmbuscadeA Resumed IdentityA Jug of SirupJupiter Doke, Brigadier-GeneralThe Other LodgersThe Spook HouseOn a MountainWhat I Saw of ShilohA Little of ChickamaugaThe Crime at Pickett's MillFour Days in DixieWhat Occurred at Franklin'Way Down in Alabam'A Sole SurvivorA Bivouac of the Dead
language: English
title: Shadows of Blue & Gray : The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
titlecomplete: Shadows of Blue & Gray : The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
genres: Fiction, Civil War, Short Stories
ratings_count: 53
publisher: Tom Doherty Associates