A Tough Tussle (Illustrated)

Ambrose Bierce was an American writer and journalist. Bierce was born to a large family of 13 children in Ohio. Even though the family was poor, Bierce’s parents had an appreciation of reading and writing that was passed onto him at a young age. At just 15 years old, Bierce left home to become a writer at a small Ohio newspaper.

Bierce fought in the Civil War including the battle of Shiloh which he wrote about in his famous memoir “What I saw of Shiloh”. After sustaining a serious head wound...