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Literature Network» Ambrose Bierce» Chickamauga Chickamauga One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved.  · Ambrose Bierce (born ), an Indiana farm boy who had enlisted on the Union side in , took part in this battle, and in his story “Chickamauga” () he not only accurately describes the tactical military aspects of the terrain but also captures the horrors of war in gruesome detail. 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. As the child wanders deeper into the forest, the narrator provides information about the boy’s father: he is a poor planter, and in his younger manhood he had been a soldier.

Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce "He had slept through it all, grasping his little wooden sword with perhaps a tighter clutch in unconscious sympathy with his martial environment, but as heedless of the grandeur of the struggle as the dead who had died to make the glory.". Analysis of Ambrose Bierce's Chickamauga By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on . Chickamauga is Cherokee for "bad water," the name a branch of the tribe gave to the creek alongside which they lived in the northwest corner of Georgia when they were decimated by an outbreak of smallpox. Subsequent historians dubbed Chickamauga Creek the "River of Death" (Morris 56); the Civil War's. Chickamauga: A Short Story. Ambrose Bierce, one of the most popular authors of the late 19th century, known for his short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," political satire pamphlet "The Devil's Dictionary," and for his mysterious disappearance in Mexico in He served with the Union army in the western theater of the Civil War.

“Chickamauga” is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in a collection of his stories in The name refers to a Civil War battlefield in Georgia. The story is set in the South during the Civil War. Chickamauga Ambrose Bierce ONE SUNNY AUTUMN afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved. It was happy in a new sense of freedom from control, happy in the opportunity of exploration and. Literature Network» Ambrose Bierce» Chickamauga Chickamauga One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved.