"The Man That Was Used Up", sometimes subtitled "A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign", is a short story and satire by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in August 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.
The Man That Was Used Up
The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe, No. I, William H. Graham, Philadelphia, 1843.
General Winfield Scott may have inspired "The Man That Was Used Up".
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
Title page for volume I