Ambrose Bierce on history, memory, and literature : a sole survivor
Introduction : Fighting and writing the Civil War
Patricide in the house divided, 1861
Thin blue ghost ; Battlefields and ghosts ; One kind of officer ; Mocking-bird ; Horseman in the sky ; Defending realism I ; Tough tussle ; On a mountain ; Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general ; Two fantastic fables : Equipped for service and The mysterious word ; Professional officer
What I saw of Shiloh ; Defending General Buell ; Two military executions ; On military executions ; Affair of outposts ; Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ; Coup de grace
True war story is never moral, 1863
Stone's river ; Baffled ambuscade ; On military punishments ; Three and one are one ; Affair at Coulter's Notch ; Defending realism II ; George Thurston ; Story of a conscience ; Parker Adderson, philosopher ; One officer, one man ; On Chickamauga ; Chickamauga ; Little of Chickamauga ; More on Chickamauga ; Letter to Colonel Archibald Gracie ; General Wood's command ; General Grant and the poisoned chalice
Bierce's map of the battlefield of Resaca ; Killed at Resaca ; Bierce's map of the battlefield of Pickett's Mill ; Crime at Pickett's Mill ; On General O. O. Howard ; On prayer in battle ; My dear Clara ; One of the missing ; Son of the gods : a study in the present tense ; Defending realism III ; Four days in Dixie ; What occurred at Franklin ; On General Schofield ; Body count at Franklin ; Major's tale ; Battle of Nashville : an attack of General Debility ; On black soldiering
Phantoms of a blood-stained period, 1865 and later
Way down in Alabam ; Other lodgers ; Resumed identity ; Nature of war ; Modern warfare ; A'soldiering for freedom ; Hesitating veteran ; Invocation ; Death of Grant ; Contentment ; Death of General Grant ; At a national encampment ; On Jefferson Davis's death ; Confederate flags ; To E. S. Salomon ; Travel letter to George ; Year's casualties ; Bivouac of the dead ; Letter from D.C. ; Fragments from last letters.
