![]() ![]() Initially enlisted in the 9th Regiment as a private, Bierce would rise to the rank of sergeant before finally being promoted to the rank of brevet captain and topographical officer under the command of General William Babcock Hazen of Don Carlos Buell’s Army of the Ohio.ĭuring his tenure as a topographical officer, Bierce surveyed and fought in some of the greatest battles of the Civil War: Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Stones River, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Missionary Ridge, Battle of Pickett’s Mill, and Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. ![]() ![]() His interest in the military led him to enlist in Company C of the 9th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers in April of 1861 shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War. In 1859, at the age of seventeen, Bierce attended the Kentucky Military Institute for a period of one year before dropping out. The youngest of ten siblings of Marcus Aurelius and Laura Sherwood Bierce, he did not have a strong bond with his father and mother while growing up and left his family in 1857 to become a printer’s devil for The Northern Indianan newspaper in Warsaw, Indiana for short period of time before eventually returning to Ohio to live with his uncle, Lucius Verus Bierce. ![]() Ambrose Gwinett Bierce was born on Jin Meigs County, Ohio. ![]()
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