In "A Resumed Identity," Bierce presents his readers with a man watching an army pass

in the predawn hours of the morning. [1] Contextual clues reveal that the man does not physically and at that moment see what he believes he is seeing. What appears to be a simple case of hallucination, however, is actually amnesia and the gradual recall of lost memories. A dialogue with a physician returning from an all-night house call reveals to Bierce’s readers that the man is suffering from memory loss as the result of a head wound, but is now regaining his memory of his life before the accident