Title: The Story and Its Writer--Compact Ninth Edition
Subjects: Short story, Short stories, Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Imagination, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Louisiana, L’Abri, Mallard residence
People: Peyton Farquhar, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards
Time periods: 1861-1865, 19th century, Antebellum era