Ambrose Bierce
The Applicant
Pushing his adventurous shins through the deep snow that had fallen overnight, and encouraged by the glee of his little sister, following in the open way that he made, a sturdy small boy, the son of Grayville's most distinguished citizen, struck his foot against something of which there was no visible sign on the surface of the snow.
The Affair at Coulter's Notch
"Do you think, Colonel, that your brave Coulter would like to put one of his guns in here?" the general asked.
Killed at Resaca
The best soldier of our staff was Lieutenant Herman Brayle, one of the two aides-de-camp.
Of The Missing
Jerome Searing, a private soldier of General Sherman's army, then confronting the enemy at and about Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, turned his back upon a small group of officers with whom he had been talking in low tones, stepped across a light line of earthworks, and disappeared in a forest.
Chickamauga
One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
It is well known that the old Manton house is haunted.