num_pages: 127
description: Newspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed "Bitter Bierce" for his vitriolic wit and biting satire, his fame rests largely on a celebrated compilation of barbed epigrams, The Devil's Dictionary, and a book of short stories (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891). Most of the 16 selections in this volume have been taken from the latter collection.The stories in this edition include: "What I Saw at Shiloh," "A Son of the Gods," "Four Days in Dixie," "One of the Missing," "A Horseman in the Sky," "The Coup de Grace," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "The Story of Conscience," "One Kind of Officer," "Chickamauga," and five more.Bierce's stories employ a buildup of suggestive realistic detail to produce grim and vivid tales often disturbing in their mood of fatalism and impending calamity. Hauntingly suggestive, they offer excellent examples of the author's dark pessimism and storytelling power.--back coverContents:1	What I Saw of Shiloh2	Four Days in Dixie3	A Horseman in the Sky4	An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge5	Chickamauga6	A Son of the Gods7	One of the Missing8	Killed at Resaca9	The Affair at Coulter's Notch10	The Coup de Grâce11	Parker Adderson, Philosopher12	An Affair of Outposts13	The Story of a Conscience14	One Kind of Officer15	George Thurston16	The Mocking-bird
language: English
title: Civil War Stories
titlecomplete: Civil War Stories
genres: Short Stories, Civil War, American, Historical, American History, American Civil War, Classics, War, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 1121
publisher: Dover Publications