One of the Missing

Fiction & Literature, Military, Short Stories, Classics
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Author: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce ISBN: 9781974928286
Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication: September 18, 2018
Imprint: Dreamscape Media Language: English
Author: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
ISBN: 9781974928286
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Publication: September 18, 2018
Imprint: Dreamscape Media
Language: English

In Ambrose Bierce’s short story One of the Missing, an orderly for the Union Army undertakes a scouting mission. Preparing to fire on a retreating army, the structure in which he is hiding is suddenly destroyed by cannon fire. When he comes to, he realizes he is completely pinned under the rubble. Making matters worse his own gun, primed and ready to fire, is coincidentally pointing at his head. This story, which originally appeared in The San Francisco Examiner in 1888, spotlights the caprices of war.

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In Ambrose Bierce’s short story One of the Missing, an orderly for the Union Army undertakes a scouting mission. Preparing to fire on a retreating army, the structure in which he is hiding is suddenly destroyed by cannon fire. When he comes to, he realizes he is completely pinned under the rubble. Making matters worse his own gun, primed and ready to fire, is coincidentally pointing at his head. This story, which originally appeared in The San Francisco Examiner in 1888, spotlights the caprices of war.

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