April 25th: Four Days In Dixie by Ambrose Bierce

[Smiley]

Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EDST) on April 25th, 2015 (00:30 A.M., April 26th (GMT)), for a discussion of  Four Days in Dixie by Ambrose Bierce.  We have read several of Bierce's stories, all of them as I recall, being tales of the supernatural or spiritual.  This one is an exception, for athough it deals with the American civil war (the setting for many of his more chilling tales) it is a typical soldier's war story--without ghosts, zombies, or near death experiences.  It deals with the adventures (or perhaps misventures) of a Union Army officer captured by the Confederates.  

 

The American Civil War, aka The War between the States in the North and the War of Yankee Aggression in the South, while a exceptionally bloody affair, was marked by a lack of malice by the combatants.  This type of anecdote was not uncommon during the war and may very well be a retelling of an actual occurrence.  I hope you enjoy it.

 

The story is available on line at:  http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/20052/

 

Meeting Place: 

 

Webchat: http://koach.com/cha...=readers_corner 

 

mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner

 

Hope you all can make it. Don't forget to bring a friend.

 

Log attached:  readers corner 4 25 2015.txt