World Civilization

World Civilization Review of Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce Perhaps no other writer in American history was more uniquely qualified to compose fiction about the American Civil War as Ambrose Bierce Naturally disposed toward gritty realism adn journalistic observation ,but given to flights of poetic ecstacy , Bierce served in the Civil War as a soldier , enlisting "out of his home in Warsaw Indiana (Gale , 2001 ,

. 51 ) and wen on to attain the rank of Lieutenant by the war 's close . Along the way , he faced combat , being trapped behind enemy

lines , and whose unit which participated in "the battle of Shiloh [ .] suffered the greatest number of casualties of all Union regiments involved on 6--7 April (Gale , 2001 ,

. 51 . Bierce later wrote extensively about his experiences and the fiction he generated stands as some of the most interesting and innovative writing made during the early post-war years

The stories collected in Ambrose Bierce 's "Civil War Stories " were originally published in 1909 as part of the two volume set "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce " The sixteen works of fiction collected in "Civil War Stories " span a range of genres from memoir , as in "What I Saw of Shiloh " to allegory as in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge " to what might be described as adventure /travelogue , as in "Four Days in Dixie " The stories in the book are placed in what appears to be a random , but is most likely a thematic , however...