#OTD in 1890.
Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", one of his best known works, is first published, in The San Francisco Examiner and collected in the compilation Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891).
The story is set during the American Civil War and is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/375