For 10 points, name this American author, who described Peyton Farquhar in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
One of his works opens with a "worldly" man reading a ledger and seven other men all lying around a table in reach of a dead man in the section "One Does Not Always Eat What is on the Table." That story by this author contains a section narrated by an author to a coroner and another excerpted from the diary of Hugh Morgan, the hunter of the titular creature. This author described the Halcrow brothers and Captain Downing Madwell in one and the Searing brothers in another story, Coup de Grâce and One of the Missing. In addition to a collection subtitled Being the Fables of Zambri the Parse and titled (*) Cobwebs, this author of the story The Damned Thing wrote another in which "the child" starts playing along with the soldiers of the titular battle, Chickamauga, collected in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. For 10 points, name this American author, who described Peyton Farquhar in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
One of his works opens with a "worldly" man reading a ledger and seven other men all lying around a table in reach of a dead man in the section "
Ambrose {Bierce}