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Charles Ashmore’s Trail by Ambrose Bierce
The family of Christian Ashmore consisted of his wife, his mother, two grown daughters, and a son of sixteen years.…
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Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
“He had slept through it all, grasping his little wooden sword with perhaps a tighter clutch in unconscious sympathy with…
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Four Days in Dixie by Ambrose Bierce
During a part of the month of October, 1864, the Federal and Confederate armies of Sherman and Hood respectively, having…
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George Thurston by Ambrose Bierce
THREE INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A MANGeorge Thurston was a first lieutenant and aide-de-camp on the staff of Colonel…
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Haita The Shepherd by Ambrose Bierce
In the heart of Haita the illusions of youth had not been supplanted by those of age and experience. His…
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Jo. Dunfer. Done for. by Ambrose Bierce
I turned from it with indifference, and brushing away the leaves from the tablet of the dead pagan restored to…
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John Bartine’s Watch by Ambrose Bierce
A Story by a Physician‘The exact time? Good God! my friend, why do you insist? One would think — but…
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John Mortonson’s Funeral by Ambrose Bierce
John Mortonson was dead: his lines in ‘the tragedy “Man”‘ had all been spoken and he had left the stage.…
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Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General by Ambrose Bierce
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General is a satirical tale published in Wasp in 1885. Ambrose Bierce uses a series of vignettes reported…
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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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