Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War (Expanded, Annotated) American Classic Series #15

Perhaps no writer who fought in the American Civil War left as eloquent, humorous, and sorrowful a record of the soldier's life as did Ambrose Bierce. As he states, this account of several battles in which he was an officer centers around his person and observations.

But what an observer! Written nearly 50 years after the war, Bierce captures the horror, confusion, disastrous mistakes, and humor of the war from ground level.

He was a soldier at Shiloh, Franklin, and at many other battles of t...