Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife: The Civil War and the Emergence of an American Writer
312Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife: The Civil War and the Emergence of an American Writer
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ISBN-13: | 9781621901792 |
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Publisher: | University of Tennessee Press |
Publication date: | 10/26/2016 |
Pages: | 312 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1 Green and Salad Days 11
2 Bad Boys Make Good Soldiers 25
3 On a Mountain 39
4 Unfamiliar Landscapes 51
5 What He Saw of Shiloh 63
6 Excursions and Alarums: Corinth, Owl Creek, and Perryville 79
7 Stones River 95
8 Sitzkrieg to Blitzkrieg 109
9 Chickamauga 121
10 Besieged 139
11 Lieb und Krieg 159
12 Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Atlanta Campaign 165
13 Casualties of War 177
14 What Happens: The Road to Franklin 187
15 A Son of the Gods: The Battle of Nashville and After 199
16 In High Cotton: Carpetbaggers, Confederates, and Corruption 211
17 Phantoms and Presentiments 219
Epilogue: The Difficulty of Crossing a Battlefield 227
Appendix I What Albert Bierce Saw: A Little Bit More of Chickamauga 231
Appendix II Major Bierce's Critique of Confederate Strategy 235
Appendix III Ambrose Bierce's Journal of the Carolinas Campaign 241
Notes 249
Selected Bibliography 279
Index 289