An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Large Print

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. A rope 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 may have been a deputy sheriff. At a short remove upon the same temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed.

• | Author: Ambrose Bierce
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: January 16, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 40 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1661046878
• | ISBN-13: 9781661046873