First-person narration: The story is told from the perspective of a single unnamed soldier allowing a personal and intimate view-point of the battle. We experience the events through the narrator's eyes, feeling the confusion, terror, and revulsion alongside him.
Vivid imagery: Bierce employs descriptive language rich in sensory details to paint a picture of the battlefield's brutality. He doesn't shy away from using graphic descriptions of wounds, dead bodies, and the destruction caused by war, forcing the reader to confront the realities of war.
