Download or read book A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Sheba Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two short stories from the American Civil War by Ambrose Bierce. The first story is about a brave soldier who follows orders and risks his life without question. The second is about a soldier who falls asleep on guard duty. A mistake punishable by death in Civil War times.
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Download or read book A Son of the Gods written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant and magnetic as are these two studies by Ambrose Bierce, and especially significant as coming from one who was a boy soldier in the Civil War, they merely reflect one side of his original and many-faceted genius. Poet, critic, satirist, fun-maker, incomparable writer of fables and masterly prose sketches, a seer of startling insight, a reasoner mercilessly logical, with the delicate wit and keenness of an Irving or an Addison, the dramatic quality of a Hugo, - all of these, and still in the prime of his powers; yet so restricted has been his output and so little exploited that only the judicious few have been impressed...
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Download or read book A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky written by Ambrose Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year: 1861. The place: A cliff overlooking a forested valley in the western part of Virginia. The event: The American Civil War. A Union Soldier named Carter Druse is posted at his sentry site on this particularly sunny afternoon. It is the kind of summer day in Dixie that can easily send a siren song to anyone, anywhere, serving any duty to lie down and rest. So restful is Druse that anyone observing him prostrate as he was would have assumed--considering the circumstances--that he was dead. It was much worse than that, of course. He had committed a crime far worse than death: falling asleep on guard duty. Had he been so discovered, he would soon know both the sin and the punishment since a breach of regulations could only justifiably be disciplined through execution. The story is divided into sections and Part I is primarily descriptive prose outlining the topographical features of the setting and how those features are essential to the dramatic tension marking the narrative trek. The central element of this narrative trek is the strategic implementation by the Union forces to send somewhere between five and ten thousand men currently hidden from sight by the Confederate forces occupying the ridges bordering either side of the forest valley. Victory is almost assured provided the Union troops can maintain the element of surprise: it's a simple ambush. The tricky part is that maintenance of the surprise element. And a sentry falling asleep on duty is most assuredly not a helpful tactic.
