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Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife - The Civil War and the Emergence of an American Writer (Hardcover)
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Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife - The Civil War and the Emergence of an American Writer (Hardcover)
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In the spring of 1861, Ambrose Bierce, just shy of nineteen, became
Private Bierce of the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. For the
next four years, Bierce marched and fought throughout the western
theater of the Civil War. Because of his searing wartime
experience, Bierce became a key writer in the history of American
literary realism. Scholars have long asserted that there are
concrete connections between Bierce's fiction and his service, but
surprisingly no biographer has focused solely on Bierce's formative
Civil War career and made these connections clear. Christopher K.
Coleman uses Ambrose Bierce's few autobiographical writings about
the war and a deep analysis of his fiction to help readers see and
feel the muddy, bloody world threatening Bierce and his fellow
Civil War soldiers. Across the Tennessee River from the battle of
Shiloh, Bierce, who could only hear the battle in the darkness
writes, "The death-line was an arc of which the river was the
chord." Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife is a
fascinating account of the movements of the Ninth Indiana
Regiment-a unit that saw as much action as any through the war-and
readers will come to know the men and leaders, the deaths and
glories, of this group from its most insightful observer. Using
Bierce's writings and a detective's skill to provide a
comprehensive view of Bierce's wartime experience, Coleman creates
a vivid portrait of a man and a war. Not simply a tale of one
writer's experience, this meticulously researched book traces the
human costs of the Civil War. From small early skirmishes in
western Virginia through the horrors of Shiloh to narrowly escaping
death from a Confederate sniper's bullet during the battle of
Kennesaw Mountain, Bierce emerges as a writer forged in war, and
Coleman's gripping narrative is a genuine contri bution to our
understanding of the Western Theater and the development of a
protean writer.
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