Sherwood and his father was Marcus Aurelius Bierce. Bierce came from a big family; he was number ten out of fourteen children. He was never really close to his parents and always wanted to do things for himself. At the age of four his family moved to Indiana, where he spent most of his teen years. At the age of fifteen he left home to work for an abolitionist’s newspaper company where he was a ‘printer’s devil’. Soon after, he moved to Akron, Ohio with his uncle Lucius Versus Bierce. Young Ambrose deeply
included 24th, 25th, and 32nd Ohio Infantry, 7th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 17th Indiana Infantry, 4th U.S. Artillery, and several others. General Jackson had about 2000 men. He had reported that his army was a third of its strength due to sickness and disease that easily spread in the camp’s harsh conditions. His main force included 1st and the 12th Georgia Infantry, 23rd and 44th and a battalion of the 25th Virginia, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, and 31st Virginia Infantry and a couple of others. Despite
Leigh died in their twenties, one by suicide and the other from phenomena. Ambrose divorced Mary Ellen in 1904 and she died the year after. His daughter Helen was his only descendant that outlived him. Bierce served in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. A year after he enlisted, he was made First Lieutenant and worked as a topographical engineer, creating maps of battlefields. It is believed that he suffered from PTSD which influenced many of his later works. According to Bill Marx of
a farm (in Horse Cave Creek), in Meigs County, Ohio and grew up in Kosciusko County, Indiana. In 1859, Bierce joins the Military School of Kentucky, where his stay was cut short prematurely because of an accident, supposedly intentional that ended up by setting fire to the establishment. At the beginning of the American Civil War, on April 19, 1861, Bierce enlisted in the 9th Regiment volunteer infantry of Indiana, then he earned the promotion to captain. Being days later lawyer, in January 1865