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A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky

Ambrose Bierce

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A story about a father and son on different sides of the Civil War

in power of description, subtlety of touch or literary finish. It is deeply to be regretted that he has not given us more such prose.

 

W. C. Morrow.





A SON OF THE GODS

A breezy day and a sunny landscape. An open country to right and left and forward; behind, a wood. In the edge of this wood, facing the open but not venturing into it, long lines of troops halted. The wood is alive with them, and full of confused noises: the occasional rattle of wheels as a battery of artillery goes into position to cover the advance; the hum and murmur of the soldiers talking; a sound of innumerable feet in the dry leaves that strew the interspaces among the trees; hoarse commands of officers. Detached groups of horsemen are well in front—not altogether exposed—many of them intently regarding the crest of a hill a mile away in the direction of the interrupted advance. For this powerful army, moving in battle order through a forest, has met with a formidable obstacle—the open country. The crest of that gentle hill a mile away has a sinister look; it says, Beware! Along it runs a stone wall extending to left and right a great distance. Behind the wall is a hedge; behind the hedge are seen the tops of trees in rather straggling order. Among the trees—what? It is necessary to know.

Yesterday, and for many days and nights previously, we were fighting somewhere; always there was cannonading, with occasional keen rattlings of musketry, mingled with cheers, our own or the enemy's, we seldom knew, attesting some temporary advantage. This morning at daybreak the enemy was gone. We have moved forward across his earthworks, across which we have so often vainly attempted to move before, through the debris of his abandoned camps, among the graves of his fallen, into the woods beyond.

How curiously we regarded every

Cathy Milton 10/23/2023
Amazing Prose

Bierce is an author for the ages. His rare gift of bringing the reader into the story, will be his lasting contribution to his readers for years to come.
John 09/17/2018
The title is a smidgen misleading, but the story is quite captivating in its presentation of both gallantry and the often foolishness of war.
victor miro quesada vargas 05/19/2015
good quality work

zombies combined via books not much about six decades from getting home just keep living quarters with everyone read. on
Ivan 03/23/2012
I read this as part of Classic American Literature: 13 books by Bierce in a single file, improved 1/7/2011 [Kindle Edition]

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