A young boy leads a company of wounded soldiers to his home, only to discover that it is on fire, in his story "Chickamauga," while another of his works calls love "a condition curable by marriage."
One of this man's characters swings too high on a hundred-foot swing and plummets over a cliff, while another another leaves Col. McConnel to seek his fortune and is captured by a home-guard. He wrote about a wanderer who contemplates the philosopher Hali and then finds his own tomb in "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," and his satirical takes on Aesop are collected in his Fantastic Fables. A young boy leads a company of wounded soldiers to his home, only to discover that it is on fire, in his story "Chickamauga," while another of his works calls love "a condition curable by marriage." In his best known work, the failed sabotage of Union railroad raiders by Peyton Farqhuar leads to his fantasy of escaping his hanging. The subject of The Old Gringo, FTP, name this author of The Devil's Dictionary and "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge."
One of this man's characters swings too high on a hundred-foot swing and plummets over a cliff, while another another leaves Col. McConnel to seek his fortune and is captured by a home-guard.
Ambrose {Bierce}