Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

A man named Peyton Farquhar is standing on a railroad bridge looking twenty feet down into the fast- moving river. This story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is written by Ambrose Bierce. The story is divided into three sections which go from a flashback to the present. Each section of the story talks about different things that are occurring in the story. The story is told in third person limited omniscient. The setting of the story is at the Owl Creek Bridge located in Northern Alabama.
In the first section of the story, the main character Peyton Farquhar is standing on the railroad bridge looking down into the river as he was about to be hung. He was preparing himself and was having a moment thinking about life, his family and everything