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Ambrose Bierce's Chickamauga
I believe Bierce wanted people to see the fire and brimstone, to hear the ear-piercing cannons, and the odor reek residue from shrapnel mixed with decomposing skin. In Bierce tales, the happiest prairies swiftly turned into a grim nightfall domain inhabited by shadowlike phantoms moving amongst distended carcasses. In that adorned idealism, ethical evolution, and virtuous origins linked with the war, he was able to write that war was nothing more than squandered lives, disfigurement, sickness, deterioration, and ultimately lead to death.

The approach the author has toward the child is echoed in the story. Ambrose Bierce's attitude concerning war, in "Chickamauga" is disgust. In this tale, Bierce defines his hatred to war, through the eyes
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