![]() ![]() No one is moving except the men on the bridge. Other soldiers watch the hanging from a hillside leading to the river below. At the ends of the bridge are soldiers assigned to prevent anyone from crossing. Standing behind him, the narrator says, are “his executioners-two private soldiers of the Federal army” and their commander (4). Part 1 begins with an unnamed man about to be hanged from a railroad bridge, which readers later learn is the Owl Creek Bridge in northern Alabama. For a moment in Part 3, however, Bierce switches to present tense. ![]() “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is written in three parts in the third-person past tense. The story is in the public domain and can also be accessed online for free. This study guide cites the edition of the story found in the 2009 e-book The Floating Press. ![]()
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