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Funny, Peace, Military. The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. Ambrose Bierce. Peace, Powerful, War. Ambrose Bierce (1912). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata”
‘Chickamauga’ is a war story, but is unusual in focusing on a young child who is a bystander to the carnage that unfolds. The story’s title is derived from the Battle of Chickamauga , which was fought in September 1863 between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War.
In “Chickamauga,” set during the American Civil War, a six-year old child in northwestern Georgia wanders into the forest carrying a wooden toy sword to play at being a soldier.
18 Μαΐ 2021 · Ambrose Bierce (born 1842), an Indiana farm boy who had enlisted on the Union side in 1861, took part in this battle, and in his story “Chickamauga” (1889) he not only accurately describes the tactical military aspects of the terrain but also captures the horrors of war in gruesome detail.
“Chickamauga” is based on a real American Civil War battle in which Ambrose Bierce fought during his service in the Union Army. The Civil War (1861-1865) was fought between the Union (Northern states) and the Confederacy (Southern states).
Ambrose Bierce employs a type of visual irony in which things are the opposite of what they appear to be. “No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.” ( Page 4 )
