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Ambrose Bierce's stories convey truth mixed with fiction. For example, One of the Missing uses the name of Brigadier General William Tecumseh Sherman (General Sherman) and depicts the "Confederate retreat"[1]through the fictional character of Private Jerome Searing, who is an "orderly"[2]for Sherman's army. The story also depicts the "miles of trenchlines"[3]which it appears Bierce described as "A line of earthworks"[4]and "little banks of earth scooped out of the slight depression"[5]. Of course, this would only be true if Union soldiers had taken over the Confederate trenches. It seems likely. It appears that the Atlanta Campaign is presented as a sort of building site as well as a battlefield.
Ambrose Bierce's stories convey truth mixed with fiction. For example, One of the Missing uses the name of Brigadier General William Tecumseh Sherman (General Sherman) and depicts the "Confederate retreat"[1]through the fictional character of Private Jerome Searing, who is an "orderly"[2]for Sherman's army. The story also depicts the "miles of trenchlines"[3]which it appears Bierce described as "A line of earthworks"[4]and "little banks of earth scooped out of the slight depression"[5]. Of course, this would only be true if Union soldiers had taken over the Confederate trenches. It seems likely. It appears that the Atlanta Campaign is presented as a sort of building site as well as a battlefield.
To this:
Ambrose Bierce's stories convey truth mixed with fiction.
For example, One of the Missing uses
the name of Brigadier General William Tecumseh Sherman (General Sherman) and
depicts the "Confederate retreat"[1]
through the fictional character of Private Jerome Searing, who is an
"orderly"[2]
for Sherman's army. The story also depicts the "miles of trenchlines"[3]
which it appears Bierce described as "A line of earthworks"[4]
and "little banks of earth scooped out of the slight depression"[5].
Of course, this would only be genuine
if Union soldiers had taken over the Confederate trenches. "Searing pushed
forward across the line of abandoned pits"[6] gives us evidence to show that
this is likely true. It appears that the Atlanta Campaign is presented as a
sort of building site as well as a battlefield.
[1] Geologic
Origins of Kennesaw Mountain - ?
[2] Ambrose
Gwinnett Bierce, One of the Missing, http://www.ambrosebierce.org/main.html
[3]Angela
Tooley, The Dallas Road Community and the
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, National Park Service U.S. Department of the
Interior Kennesaw Mountain National
Battlefield Park, Experience Your America™
[4] One
of the Missing
[5] One
of the Missing
[6]
One of the Missing
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