Ending with the hanging of Peyton Farquhar, FTP, identify this tale by Ambrose Bierce.
It is the best-known of the stories published in the collection In the Midst of Life. Due to "circumstances of an imperious nature" the central character could not take part in the disastrous campaigns that led to the fall of Corinth. We also learn that he only imagined his escape from the rifle fire of two sentinels. This story tells us that the protagonist is a planter from an old Alabama family, who has been captured by the Federal army. Ending with the hanging of Peyton Farquhar, FTP, identify this tale by Ambrose Bierce.
It is the best-known of the stories published in the collection
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