Shadows of Blue & Gray (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765302458)

Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it--on the battlefields and over the graves--and in doing so gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. The fact that some of these stories verged on the supernatural, others on factual reporting, and others on the fine line between humor and morbidity in no way detracts from their resonance to both the history of the war between the states and the imaginative historical literature in the tradition of Washington Irving.

Shadows of Blue & Gray collects all of Bierce's Civil War stories (twenty-seven in total) with six of his memoir pieces on his own experiences on the front lines.

This collection includes such classics as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "A Horseman in the Sky," "Parker Addison, Philosopher", and "A Bivouac of the Dead"; as well as lesser known stories and sketches such as "The Mockingbird" and "Two Military Executions" and memoirs of his experiences at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Franklin.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
ISBN-10: 0765302454
ISBN-13: 9780765302458
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2003
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.51w x 0.73d