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March, 2008
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The Devil's Topographer
Ambrose Bierce and the American War Story

By David M. Owens
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 166. Illustrations, maps, appendices, bibliography, index. $33.00.)

On April 19, 1861, eighteen-year-old Ambrose Bierce enlisted with the Indiana Volunteer Ninth Regiment at Elkhart, the second man in the county to do so. After serving briefly in the Cheat Mountain region of West Virginia, Bierce and the Ninth Regiment were transferred to Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio, and shipped to Nashville. There they were absorbed into William Hazen's Brigade, where they remained for the rest of the war. Hazen's Brigade and the Ninth Regiment saw some of the fiercest action of the war, distinguishing themselves at Shiloh, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Resaca, and Kennesaw Mountain. Bierce was wounded in the head at this last engagement and received a medical discharge in January 1865. . . .
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