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Killed at Resaca by Ambrose Bierce
The best soldier of our staff was Lieutenant Herman Brayle, one of the two aides-de-camp. I don’t remember where the…
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Moxon’s Master by Ambrose Bierce
‘Are you serious? — do you really believe that a machine thinks?’ I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently…
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Music by Ambrose Bierce
C.E. Brock, The Humour of America, 1909WILD cat was listening with rapt approval to the melody of distant hounds tracking…
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My Favourite Murder by Ambrose Bierce
Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon trial, which lasted seven years.…
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Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
My name is Boffer Bings. I was born of honest parents in one of the humbler walks of life, my…
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On a Mountain by Ambrose Bierce
They say that the lumberman has looked upon the Cheat Mountain country and seen that it is good, and I…
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One Kind of Officer by Ambrose Bierce
IOF THE USES OF CIVILITY “Captain Ransome, it is not permitted to you to know anything. It is sufficient that…
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One Officer, One Man by Ambrose Bierce
Captain Graffenreid stood at the head of his company. The regiment was not engaged. It formed a part of the…
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One Of The Missing by Ambrose Bierce
Jerome Searing, a private soldier of General Sherman’s army, then confronting the enemy at and about Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, turned…
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One Of Twins by Ambrose Bierce
A Letter found among the Papers of the late Mortimer Barr You ask me if in my experience as one…
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