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Ambrose Bierce

  • Born June 24, 1842 in a religious town called Horse Cave Creek in Meigs county, Ohio
  • When Bierce was 4, his family moved to Indiana
  • His mother was Laura Sherwood and his father was Marcus Bierce
  • His grandparents were Abigale and William Bierce

He had Highland blood in his family

The family, through the generations, spelled their names "Bearse" rather than "Bierce"

Ambrose married Mary Ellen Day

in December 1871

They moved to England from1872-5.

London Magazine "Fun" and "Figaro"

After about a year

of high school, he was 15 and

left home to became an

apprentice for a newspaper in

Warsaw, Indiana

  • He enlisted in the 9th Indiana Volunteers in 1861 and fought in a number of Civil War Battles
  • Including Shiloh and Chickamauga
  • At the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Bierce was seriously wounded in 1864 and served until January of 1865
  • In 1867, Bierce received the rank of Major for his merit.
  • Bierce resettled in San Francisco when it was experiencing an artistic Renaissance, he began to contribute to periodicals, particularly the News Letter
  • he became editor of the News Letter in 1868

Bierce soon became the literary arbiter of the West coast but was soon tired of the American life

Bierce went to Mexico right in the middle of the revolution led by Pancho Villa in 1913

His death is unknown but we can believe that Bierce was killed in the siege of Onjinaga in January of 1914

When he was 17, Bierce lived with his

uncle, and he enrolled into Kentucky

Military Institute

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