In the short story “What I Saw of Shiloh” by Ambrose Bierce, he describes a great contrast between the nobility of officers and the brutality of battle. He paints a brutal picture of war in when he says “This fearful scene was enacted within fifty paces of our toes, but we were rooted to the ground as if we had grown there. But now our commanding officer rode from behind us to front, waved his hand with the courteous gesture that says après vous, and with a barely audible cheer we sprang into the fight (Bierce, p.15).”
In this chaotic and uncertain situation the commanding officer shows the nobility of all great leaders to calmly and fearlessly place him self in front of his men. Issuing a simple hand gesture to his men that it is time to fight
In this chaotic and uncertain situation the commanding officer shows the nobility of all great leaders to calmly and fearlessly place him self in front of his men. Issuing a simple hand gesture to his men that it is time to fight