The popular American writer Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) tells about his experiences as a soldier and about the stories he had heard during the American Civil War. You can find a collection of 24 short stories: One of the Missing - A Baffled Ambuscade - The Affair at Coulter's Notch - A Son of the Gods - One Kind of Officer - A Tough Tussle - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Chickamauga - The Coup de GrĂ¢ce - One Officer, One Man -The Story of a Conscience - Parker Adderson, Philosopher - An Affair of Outposts - Jupiter Doke,- Brigadier General - A Horseman in the Sky - The Mocking-Bird - George Thurston - Killed at Resaca - Three and One are One - Two Military Executions - The Major's Tale - A Resumed Identity - A Man With Two Lives - The Other Lodgers. This book is a great document of American History!