Shadows of Blue & Gray
Subtitle: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
By: edited by Brian M. Thomsen.
Contributors: Thomsen, Brian.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2002 03
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780765302441
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?; War correspondents -- United States -- Biography.; Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.; War stories, American.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Genres: Biography.; Fiction.; Personal narratives.
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 & 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 flap
Notes: "A Forge book"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Tales told & stories spun --; title: Chickamauga --; title: A horseman in the sky --; title: Parker Adderson, philosopher --; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge --; title: Two military executions --; title: The mocking-bird --; title: A tough tussle --; title: The Major's tale --; title: A son of the gods --; title: A man with two lives --; title: One of the missing --; title: The coup de Grâce --; title: Killed at Resaca --; title: The affair at Coulter's Notch --; title: An affair of outposts --; title: The story of a conscience --; title: One kind of officer --; title: One officer, one man --; title: George Thurston --; title: Three and one are one --; title: A baffled ambuscade --; title: A resumed identity --; title: A jug of sirup --; title: Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General --; title: The other lodgers --; title: The spook house --; title: Memoirs & chronicles --; title: On a mountain --; title: What I saw at Shiloh --; title: A little of Chickamauga --; title: The crime at Pickett's Mill --; title: Four days in Dixie --; title: What occurred at Franklin --; title: 'Way down in Alabam' --; title: Reminiscence & memoria --; title: A sole survivor --; title: A bivouac of the dead --; title: Afterword.