Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce Book

	Acknowledgments
	A Note on Sources
	Ambrose Bierce on History, Memory, and Literature: "A Sole Survivor"	1
	Introduction: Fighting and Writing the Civil War	5
Ch. 1	Patricide in the House Divided, 1861	31
	A Thin Blue Ghost	35
	Battlefields and Ghosts	36
	One Kind of Officer	41
	The Mocking-Bird	51
	A Horseman in the Sky	57
	Defending Realism I	63
	A Tough Tussle	65
	On a Mountain	73
	Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General	78
	Two Fantastic Fables: Equipped for Service and The Mysterious Word	87
	The Professional Officer	88
Ch. 2	What War Really is, 1862	89
	What I Saw of Shiloh	93
	Defending General Buell	111
	Two Military Executions	113
	On Military Executions	116
	An Affair of Outposts	117
	An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	127
	The Coup de Grace	136
Ch. 3	A True War Story is Never Moral, 1863	141
	Stone's River	145
	A Baffled Ambuscade	147
	On Military Punishments	149
	Three and One Are One	150
	The Affair at Coulter's Notch	153
	Defending Realism II	161
	George Thurston	162
	The Story of a Conscience	167
	Parker Adderson, Philosopher	174
	One Officer, One Man	180
	On Chickamauga	186
	Chickamauga	189
	A Little of Chickamauga	195
	More on Chickamauga	200
	Letter to Colonel Archibald Gracie	202
	General Wood's Command	205
	General Grant and the Poisoned Chalice	206
Ch. 4	War is all Hell, 1864	208
	Bierce's Map of the Battlefield of Resaca	211
	Killed at Resaca	212
	Bierce's Map of the Battlefield of Pickett's Mill	218
	The Crime at Pickett's Mill	219
	On General O. O. Howard	230
	On Prayer in Battle	232
	My Dear Clara	233
	One of the Missing	236
	A Son of the Gods: A Study in the Present Tense	247
	Defending Realism III	253
	Four Days in Dixie	255
	What Occurred at Franklin	264
	On General Schofield	271
	The Body Count at Franklin	272
	The Major's Tale	275
	The Battle of Nashville: An Attack of General Debility	282
	On Black Soldiering	284
Ch. 5	Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period, 1865 and Later	286
	'Way Down in Alabam'	290
	The Other Lodgers	300
	A Resumed Identity	303
	The Nature of War	309
	Modern Warfare	311
	A'Soldiering for Freedom	316
	The Hesitating Veteran	317
	Invocation	319
	The Death of Grant	323
	Contentment	325
	The Death of General Grant	326
	At a "National Encampment"	328
	On Jefferson Davis's Death	330
	The Confederate Flags	332
	To E. S. Salomon	334
	A Travel Letter to George	337
	A Year's "Casualties"	338
	A Bivouac of the Dead	339
	A Letter from D.C.	341
	Fragments from Last Letters	342
	Alternate Table of Contents	344
	Basic Military Organization	347
	Glossary of Military Terms	348