FOUR DAYS IN DIXIE by AMBROSE BIERCE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 3 May 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:34.0 | It's been a while since we've done an Ambrose Bierce story, |
| 0:37.0 | and we have a good room for you today. |
| 0:39.0 | As many of you Ambrose Bierce fans know, |
| 0:42.0 | Bierce served in the Civil War in the Union's 9th Indiana |
| 0:45.1 | Regiment, gaining newspaper attention during the First Battle of Philippi for his daring rescue |
| 0:50.4 | under fire of a gravely wounded comrade at the Battle of Rich Mountain. |
| 0:55.0 | He is considered one of the only major authors of the Civil War genre to have first-hand knowledge as a soldier. |
| 1:01.0 | He suffered a head injury in 1864 at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain |
| 1:06.1 | taking a furlow, then later leaving the army. He was commissioned lieutenant for the army in |
| 1:11.9 | San Francisco where he remained for many years, |
| 1:14.7 | eventually becoming famous as a contributor and editor for a number of local newspapers and periodicals. |
| 1:21.3 | In 1913, during the Mexican Revolutionary War, Beers traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the conflict. |
| 1:30.0 | He disappeared without a trace while traveling with rebel troops. |
| 1:34.0 | It's rumored that he might have been killed by the rebel Pancho Villa early in 1914, |
| 1:39.0 | although this is purely speculative and remains as one of literature's great unsolved mysteries. |
| 1:46.2 | And now our story, Four Days in Dixie by Ambrose Beers. |
| 1:51.3 | During a part of the month of October, 1864, the Federal and Confederate armies of Sherman and Hood, respectively, |
| 1:59.0 | having performed a surprising and resultless series of marches and counter marches since the fall of |
| 2:05.0 | Atlanta confronted each other along the separating line of the Kusa River in |
| 2:09.4 | the vicinity of Galesville, Alabama. Here, for several days, they remained at rest, at least most of the infantry and artillery did. |
| 2:19.0 | What the cavalry was I was on the staff of Colonel McConnell, who commanded an infantry brigade in the absence of its regular commander. |
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