Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

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Ambrose Bierce. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition

Soldiers

A Horseman in the Sky

i

ii

iii

iv

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

i

ii

iii

Chickamauga

A Son of the Gods

A Study in the Present Tense

One of the Missing

Killed at Resaca

The Affair at Coulter’s Notch

The Coup de Grâce

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

An Affair of Outposts

i. Concerning the Wish to Be Dead

ii. How to Say what is Worth Hearing

iii. The Fighting of One Whose Heart was Not in the Quarrel

iv. The Great Honor the Great

The Story of a Conscience

i

ii

iii

iv

One Kind of Officer

i. Of the Uses of Civility

ii. Under what Circumstances Men Do Not Wish to Be Shot

iii. How to Play the Cannon Without Notes

iv. To Introduce General Masterson

v. How Sounds Can Fight Shadows

vi. Why, being Affronted by A, it is Not Best to Affront B

One Officer, One Man

George Thurston

Three Incidents in the Life of a Man

The Mocking-Bird

Civilians

The Man Out of the Nose

An Adventure at Brownville1

The Famous Gilson Bequest

The Applicant

A Watcher by the Dead

i

ii

iii

iv

The Man and the Snake

i

ii

iii

iv

A Holy Terror

i

ii

iii

iv

v

The Suitable Surroundings

The Night

The Day Before

The Day After

The Manuscript

From “The Times”

The Boarded Window

A Lady from Redhorse

The Eyes of the Panther

i. One Does Not Always Marry when Insane

ii. A Room May Be Too Narrow for Three, Though One is Outside

iii. The Theory of the Defense

iv. An Appeal to the Conscience of God

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Ambrose Bierce

(26 Stories: includes Chickamauga + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Mocking-Bird)

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After firing his shot, Private Carter Druse reloaded his rifle and resumed his watch. Ten minutes had hardly passed when a Federal sergeant crept cautiously to him on hands and knees. Druse neither turned his head nor looked at him, but lay without motion or sign of recognition.

“Did you fire?” the sergeant whispered.

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