Killed at Resaca (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- First Published: 1891
- Type of Plot: War
- Time of Work: The American Civil War
- Setting: Resaca, Georgia, and San Francisco, California
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Lieutenant Herman Brayle, The general, Marian Mendenhall
- Genres: Short fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Courage, Civil War, Letter writing, Death or dying, Heroes or heroism, Soldiers, Blood, Battles, Cowards or cowardliness
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Resaca, GA
The Story
The topographical engineer of a Union brigade during the Civil War, the narrator recalls campaigning in Georgia. He particularly remembers Lieutenant Herman Brayle, a recently added officer in the geographically heterogeneous unit, who came from an Ohio regiment. Tall, handsome, with blue-gray eyes and blond hair, Brayle displayed foolhardy courage during the Battle of Stone River. He did such things as sitting like a statue on horseback, exposed in the open air, and standing like a rock without cover. Mindless of hissing bullets when he carried messages to front-line...
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