Ambrose Bierce's "Chickamauga" and Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby” were two short stories written in the 1930s, which is the start of regional and local color movement in literature in America. Both stories give us a realistic view of America during Civil War. Evidently, both stories were written in a regional theme, which is identified as the style of writing that gives more focus and importance to the particular place or region they are a part of. Regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region. (Campbell) Sometimes, regionalism is similarly distinguished as the Local Color, a movement in literature which also explained the differences of the regions in America. Although the terms regionalism and local color are sometimes used interchangeably, regionalism generally has broader connotations, whereas local color is often applied to a specific literary mode that flourished in the late 19th century. R Regionalism implies recognition from the colonial period to the present of differences among specific areas of the country. (Rowe) These movements in literature aims not to create barriers or walls against the other regions, rather it encompasses the need for the America to unite and work together with each other’s differences for them to achieve unity. As time goes by, each region has become more unique, and at the same time, becoming more unfamiliar to the other people of other regions. Through the years, every region of the country has developed distinctive speech patterns, and dialects, local customs and folkways, and recognizable character types that ranged from the Western miner to the New England farmer. (Hodgins, 341) By then, the aim of Local Color and Regionalism literary movement writers were to present these existing regional distinctions and introduce them to the whole nationa. At this point, we will try to exam