AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE - 1 by Ambrose Bierce in English Moral Stories PDF

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE - 1

by Ambrose Bierce in English Moral Stories

byAmbrose BierceTHE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 I A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. ...Read Morerope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the ties supporting the rails of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners—two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life Read Less