U.S.A.
Both stories are set during this American conflict.
What is the American Civil War?
The six year old boy who wanders away from his home and stumbles into a war and a tragic revelation at the end.
Who is the story's protagonist?
Ohio in 1842
Where and when Ambrose Bierce was born?
Both stories criticize this romantic belief about war.
What is the glorification of war?
The Union army led by General Ulysses S. Grant.
Who were the victors of the Civil War?
The story “Chickamauga” takes place near the site of this real Civil War battle fought in 1863.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
He was hung on the Owl Creek Bridge.
How was Peyton Farquhar killed?
This was the side of the war in which Bierce fought.
What is the Union Army?
Bierce’s use of shocking endings emphasizes this theme.
What is illusion vs. reality?
This Civil War battle was the setting of the story "Chickamauga".
What was the Battle of Chickamauga?
The boy was traveling with this specific group of people.
Who were wounded soldiers?
The federal scout who came back to arrest Farquhar with other Union soldiers.
What was the soldier who asked for water?
This was Bierce's profession after the Civil War when he settled in San Francisco.
What is a journalist?
Owl Creek Bridge suggests that fantasy can be this type of escape.
What is an illusion or escape from death?
The state where "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" took place.
What is Alabama?
The crawling soldiers in Chickamauga symbolize this reality of war.
What is human suffering (and/or) the horrors of war?
He was talking to a federal scout wearing a confederate uniform.
What led to Peyton Farquhar being arrested?
This was the nick name that Bierce was given as he wrote themes of death and had war stories without happy endings.
What is "Bitter Bierce"?
Chickamauga reveals that innocence can’t survive this.
What is the violence or realities of war?
The President of the Union, who presented and signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was missing from the soldier whom the little boy rode like a horse.
What is a lower jaw?
It is described as "Diamonds, rubies, and emeralds anything beautiful."
What is the sand after Farquhar got away from the hanging?
The Mexican revolutionary who Bierce was following when he was killed.
Who was Pancho Villa?
Bierce’s stories both portray war as this rather than heroic.
What is brutal and meaningless?