His biting pieces of journalism were his calling card in those days, but he spent several years engaged in fiction writing as well. He worked in England from 1872 to 1875, then returned to San Francisco where he remained for many years. After the war, he travelled west with the military, stopping in San Francisco where he resigned his commission and became a journalist. Bierce fought in a number of prominent battles-including the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, where he suffered a terrible heat injury-and his experiences formed the basis of many of his later stories (including “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”). Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio, the tenth of thirteen children whose names all famously began with the letter “A.” He began his career working for an abolitionist printer and enlisted in the Union Army at the start of the U.S.
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