A Horseman In The Sky
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The story takes place in Virginia in 1861. A soldier, Carter Druse, has fallen asleep at his post on a sunny autumn day. Because the story takes place in 1861, the soldier is serving in the Civil War. He was happily living in Virginia with his parents, when a Union regiment came to the town he w ....
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.... the Civil War first hand, and saw with his own eyes how horrible the war could be. After he finished fighting in the war, he wrote stories. In them he tried to make people realize that war was bad.
I think that Ambrose Bierce described the setting and the time period very accurately. By reading his story I could picture the scene very accurately. He explained that the sun was shining, and that it was autumn. Because it was autumn it was not too hot or too cold. He also described ....
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Word count: 686
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
