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A Baffled Ambuscade by Ambrose Bierce
Connecting Readyville and Woodbury was a good, hard turnpike nine or ten miles long. Readyville was an outpost of the…
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A Bivouac of the Dead by Ambrose Bierce
Away up in the heart of the Allegheny mountains, in Pocahontas county, West Virginia, is a beautiful little valley through…
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A Cold Greeting by Ambrose Bierce
This is a story told by the late Benson Foley of San Francisco: “In the summer of 1881 I met…
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A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce
‘I am not so superstitious as some of your physicians – men of science, as you are pleased to be…
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A Fruitless Assignment by Ambrose Bierce
Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the Cincinnati Commercial.…
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A Holy Terror by Ambrose Bierce
IThere was an entire lack of interest in the latest arrival at Hurdy-Gurdy. He was not even christened with the…
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A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
In this Civil War story, Carter Druse, a young soldier from a wealthy Virginia family elects to fight for the…
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A Jug Of Syrup by Ambrose Bierce
This narrative begins with the death of its hero. Silas Deemer died on the I6th day of July, 1863; and…
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A Lady From Redhorse by Ambrose Bierce
CORONADO, JUNE 20.I find myself more and more interested in him. It is not, I am sure, his–do you know…
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A Little of Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
The history of that awful struggle is well known–I have not the intention to record it here, but only to…
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