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£j At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce

(5 enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment.... In

o February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on

O the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical

engineer, making maps of likely battlefields. Bierce fought at the

< Battle of Shiloh (April 1862), a terrifying experience that became a

source for several later short stories and the memoir, "What I Saw of

c5 Shiloh". In June 1864, he sustained a serious head wound at the

^ Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and spent the rest of the summer on

"> furlough, returning to active duty in September. He was discharged

O from the army in January 1865. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Read by Winston Tharp. Total running time: 1:40:14

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