Three short Civil War and ghost stories by the unsentimental American storyteller Ambrose Bierce. A soldier in the Civil War makes an incredible decision. Ghosts seek justice where man cannot.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was an American Civil War veteran, short story writer, and satirist/journalist. His fiction is famous for its entertaining narratives and lack of sentimentality. At the end of 1913 he disappeared in Mexico, his fate becoming one of the great mysteries of American literature.