This war is the setting of a story in which a deaf, mute child plays amidst a fire that he does not realize is his own burning house.
One poem set during this war describes a field "where April rain / Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain" and proclaims "What like a bullet can undeceive!" This war is the setting of a story in which a deaf, mute child plays amidst a fire that he does not realize is his own burning house. Ira Claffey is prevented from bringing vegetables to a group of prisoners by John Winder in a novel set in a prison camp from this war by MacKinlay Kantor. In one story, Peyton Farquhar imagines himself escaping a hangman's noose during this war. The setting of Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," characters in a novel set during this war include The Loud Soldier, Wilson, and The Tall Soldier, Jim Conklin. For 10 points, name this war in which Henry Fleming fights in The Red Badge of Courage.
One poem set during this war describes a field "where April rain / Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain" and proclaims "What like a bullet can undeceive!"
American Civil War [accept "Shiloh" during the first sentence]