In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories originally published in 1909 detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce's stories about Civil War soldiers include

A Horseman in the Sky, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga, A Son of the Gods, One of the Missing, Killed at Resaca, The Affair at Coulter's Notch, The Coup de Grace, Parker Adderson, Philosopher, An Affair of Outposts, The Story of a Conscience, One Kind of Officer, One Officer, One Man, George Thurston, andThe Mocking-Bird.Bierce's stories about the lives of civilians during the Civil War period include

The Man Out of the Nose, An Adventure at Brownville, The Famous Gilson Bequest, The Applicant, A Watcher by the Dead, The Man and the Snake, A Holy Terror, The Suitable Surroundings, The Boarded Window, A Lady from Red Horse, andThe Eyes of the Panth