Title: A Biography of Ambrose Bierce Category:Society & Culture / People Details: Words: 399 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Biography of Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in 1842 into a fairly poor family as the youngest of nine children. He lived in a log cabin in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio as a child. The only formal education he ever received was a single year at the Kentucky Military Institute when he was seventeen years of age. He enlisted with the Ninth Indian Infantry as a drummer boy in the Civil War. Then, in 1864, he was wounded and left the war to live with one of his brothers …showed first 85 words of 399 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 399 total…one point. Then he went south to Texas where , in San Antonio, he was given a dinner by his old army comerades. Afterwards he wandered the border for several days before he finally crossed, bravely, but gloomily into a revolution torn Mexico. His last letter home was sent from Chihuahua on December 26, 1913. He was never heard from again. It is believed that he joined the revolutionary forces of Pancho Villa and fell in the Battle of Ojinaga on January 11, 1914. But no one knows for sure.
