# Dr. Charles O'Donnell — Poetry character guide

> Dr. Charles O'Donnell in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** O'Donnell

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

The physician who lingers at the roadside to console a maimed young soldier, only to find his patient's thoughts have already marched somewhere stranger.

## In the story

### [Rejected](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/rejected)

Deceased doctor whose coffin is sent to Hell

### [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/xxxv)

The subject of the epitaph, buried beneath this stone, with his tongue at rest but his spirit still affecting the living.

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