Ambrose Bierce, who wrote during the Civil War era, was a critic of the war. He felt that it was a mistake and that it should have been avoided. He believed that the South should have been allowed to leave the Union without violence, but he didn’t believe that slavery was a good thing either. In his book “In the Midst of Life,” he expresses his feelings about the Civil War in an article titled “The Little Woman.” He writes about how he considers himself to be an abolitionist but is not willing to fight for it. He says that he is not willing to fight in favor of freedom because he believes that freedom is already guaranteed to everyone by God.