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In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (Classic Reprint)
In the Midst of Life Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Classic Reprint Author:Ambrose Bierce A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY I ONE sunny afternoon in the autumn of the year 1861 a soldier lay in a clump of laurel by the side of a road in western Virginia. He lay at full length upon his stomach, his feet resting upon the toes, his head upon the left forearm. His extended right hand loosely grasped his rifle. But for the somewhat methodical disposi... more »tion of his limbs and a slight rhythmic movement of the cartridge-box at the back of his belt he might have been thought to be dead. He was asleep at his post of duty. But if detected he would be dead shortly afterward, death being the just and legal penalty of his crime. The clump of laurel in which the criminal lay was in the angle of a road which after ascending southward a steep acclivity to that point turned sharply to the west, running along the summit for perhaps one hundred yards. There it turned southward again and went zigzagging downward through the forest. At the salient of that second angle was a
Table of Contents
SOLDIERS; A Horseman in the Sky 15; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Briuge 27; ClIICKAMAUGA 46; A Son of the Gods 58; One of the Missing 71; Killed at Resaca 93; The Affair at Coulter's Notch 105; The Couf de Grace 122; Parker Adderson, Philosopher 133; An Affair of Outposts 146; The Story of A Conscience 165; One Kind of Officer 178; One Officer, One Man 197; George Thurston 209; The Mocking-Bird 218; CIVILIANS; The Man Out of the Nose 233; An Adventure at Brownvjlle 247; The Famous Gilson Bequest 266; The Applicant 281; A Watcher by the Dead 290; The Man and the Snake 311; A Holy Terror 324; The Suitable Surroundings 35°; The Boarded Window 364; A Lady from Red Horse 373; The Eyes of the Panther 385
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