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September, 2005
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Ambrose Bierce
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Edited by Donald T. Blume
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxii, 222. Appendix, notes. Clothbound, $30.00; paperbound, $20.00.)

A Much Misunderstood Man
Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce

Edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 258. Notes, bibliography, index. $74.95.)

American writer Ambrose Bierce holds particular interest for students of Indiana history because, while he was born in Ohio, he was living in Elkhart, Indiana, when the Civil War broke out. He joined the 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and saw action in many of the major battles of the war—Chickamauga, Pickett's Mill, Missionary Ridge, Shiloh. His experience earned him fifteen commendations and, arguably, a career. After the war he became a journalist and made his reputation, in part, by writing disagreeably, but honestly, about his experiences as a soldier and as a civilian. Bierce was one of the few American writers to have served in active combat, and he was one of an even smaller number who refused to glorify, romanticize, or in any way extol what had been a bloody, often barbaric war. . . .
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