An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Setting
"Owl Creek" is set on a railroad bridge in Alabama during the American Civil War, which was fought from 1861 to 1865 and claimed 525,000 American lives. The bloody conflict began when the states of the American South withdrew from the Union, arguing that the U.S. Constitution gave them the right to do so if they chose. When President Abraham Lincoln disagreed with their decision and made known his determination to keep the Union together, war broke out between the Northern states, still loyal to a single, united country, and the Southern states, which had formed their own confederacy, a...
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