Shadows of Blue & GrayAmbrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it on the battlefields and over the graves and in doing so gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. The fact that some of these stories verged on the supernatural, others on factual reporting, and others on the fine line between humor and morbidity in no way detracts from their resonance to both the history of the war