Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

By Bierce, Ambrose

Book Id: WPLBN0002953281
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Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War
Author:	Bierce, Ambrose
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Adventure, History
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War
Historic Publication Date:	1909
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bierce, B. A. (1909). Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical engineer, making maps of likely battlefields. Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh (April 1862), a terrifying experience that became a source for several later short stories and the memoir, What I Saw of Shiloh. In June 1864, he sustained a serious head wound at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and spent the rest of the summer on furlough, returning to active duty in September. He was discharged from the army in January 1865.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Adventure, History, Memoirs, War stories