What point of view does the writer use in Part III of the story, which occurs within the few seconds before Farquhar dies?

In Ambrose Bierce's innovative and intriguing short story,
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," there are variations in point of
view:

1. omniscient,
   in which the narrator knows everything about all the characters and
   events


2. objective, in which
   the narrator simply reports without comment, must as a camera would record a
   scene


3. third-person limited,
   in which the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of a single
   character.

In Part III of his narrative, Bierce
employs two variations of point of view, third-person limited and objective. Throughout
most of part III, the third-person limted is used as Bierce's narrator zooms in on
the sensations of Peyton Farquhar as he is "conscious of nothing but a feeling of
fullness....of torment...of motion."  Interestlngly, it is through this third-person
limited point of view that the psychology of Farquhar is explored, rather than through
first-person point of view, which is more often used in such circumstances.  Then, it is
only in the final paragraph that the realization of the extent to which Farquahr's
imagination has contributed to the narrative strikes the reader who is jolted by the use
of objective point of view:

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Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken
neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek
bridge.

This effective use of
point of view makes Bierce's short story one that serves as a sterling example of the
creative manipulation of one of the primary elements of the short story
genre.