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It's been a while since we've done an Ambrose Beers story.

And we have a good room for you today. As many done an Ambrose Beers story, and we have a good room for you today.

As many of you Ambrose Beers fans know,

Beers served in the Civil War in the Union's Ninth Indiana Regiment,

gaining newspaper attention during the First Battle of Philippi for his daring rescue

under fire of a gravely wounded comrade at the Battle of Rich Mountain.

He is considered one of the only major authors of the Civil War genre to have first-hand knowledge as a soldier.

He suffered a head injury in 1864 at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, taking a furlough, then later leaving the Army.

He was commissioned a lieutenant for the Army in San Francisco,

where he remained for many years, eventually becoming famous as a contributor and editor

for a number of local newspapers and periodicals. In 1913, during the Mexican Revolutionary War,

Beers traveled to Mexico to gain firsthand experience of the conflict.

He disappeared without a trace while traveling with rebel troops.

It's rumored that he might have been killed by the rebel Pancho Villa early in 1914,

although this is purely speculative and remains as one of literature's great unsolved mysteries.

And now our story, Four Days in Dixie, by Ambrose Beers.

During a part of the month of October, 1864, the Federal and Confederate armies of Sherman and

Hood, respectively, having performed a surprising and resultless series of marches and

counter-marches since the fall of Atlanta, confronted each other along the separating line of the

Coosa River in the vicinity of Galesville, Alabama. Here, for several days, there remained at rest.

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