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Chickamauga

Ambrose Bierce

First published 1891
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The phamtasmagorical experiences of a small boy who wanders away from home with a wooden sword in hand. He can't hear gunfire because he is deaf, and doesn't realize that he is in the middle of a real battle and that the soldiers he cheers on are wounded and dying.z

First published in the San Francisco Examiner, Jan 20, 1889.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1891 Cover Tales of Soldiers and Civilians E. L. G. Steele Collection 41
1892 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Chatto & Windus Collection 41
1898 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians G. P. Putnam's Sons Collection 36
1909 Cover In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians The Neale Publishing Company Collection 46
1910 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Chatto & Windus Collection 41
1918 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Boni & Liveright Collection 46
1918 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Boni & Liveright Collection 46
1926 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories Haldeman-Julius Collection |2
1930 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Chatto & Windus Collection 41
1941 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Chatto & Windus Collection 41
1955 Cover The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter and Other Stories Avon Collection |3
1963 Cover Mein Lieblingsmord Insel Collection
January 1965 Cover Die Geschichte eines Gewissens Fischer Bücherei Collection 19
October 1966 Cover Beyond the Curtain of Dark Four Square Books Anthology 33
1969 Cover Das Spukhaus Insel Collection 124
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 313
November 1971 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales Ballantine Books Collection 68
November 1972 Cover Beyond the Curtain of Dark Pinnacle Books Anthology 41
November 1972 Cover Beyond the Curtain of Dark New English Library Anthology 33
1974 Cover Un călăreț prin cer și alte povestiri Cartea Românească Collection
1974 Cover Ut av mørket Fredhøis Forlag A/S Anthology 36
January 1975 Cover Galassia, #205 Casa Editrice La Tribuna MAGAZINE 87
January 1977 Cover Das Spukhaus Suhrkamp Collection 119
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 313
1984 The Best of Ambrose Bierce Castle / Book Sales Omnibus 18
October 1987 Cover Le mort et son veilleur Néo Collection 37
December 1987 Cover The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader Chronicle Books Omnibus 24
1988 Cover The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce Picador / Pan Books Omnibus 18
June 1993 Cover Nursery Crimes Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 503
1994 Cover Civil War Stories Dover Publications Collection 41
1997 Cover Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Pantheon Books Anthology 441
November 1997 Cover The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation Houghton Mifflin Anthology 295
November 1998 Cover Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Vintage Books Anthology 441
2004 Cover Contos fantásticos do século XIX Companhia das Letras Anthology 389
October 2008 Cover The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre Penguin Books Collection 19
2009 Cover Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Penguin Books Anthology |441
May 2009 Cover Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Penguin Books Anthology 441
June 2011 Cover Great Short Stories by Great American Writers Coyote Canyon Press Collection 166
September 2011 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 14 LibriVox Anthology |2
March 2012 Cover Civil War Stories Dover Publications Collection
March 2012 Cover Civil War Stories Dover Publications Collection
July 2012 Cover Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection
October 2014 Cover Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson Oxford University Press Anthology 220
March 2015 Cover Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Mariner Books Anthology 441
May 2023 Cover Selve oscure ABEditore Anthology |8
May 2024 PseudoPod, 27 May 2024 Escape Artists, Inc. MAGAZINE