Research on Bierce Part Two

A New Literary History of America
edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

·         "The Prescott-adled soldiers at the Cholula pyramid were harbingers of the anthropological tourists who would be drawn during the first half of the 20th Century to Mexico as a source of timeless, the picturesque and the primitive. Ambrose Bierce, Hart Crane Langston Hughes, and Katherine Ann Porter sought refuge in Mexican villages from the relentless forward press of modernity - but with the exception of Hughes, these writers rarely focused on Mexico's daring political experiments or its rapid urbanisation and social change." pg 9

·         "Moreover, James Franklin exploited New England's factionalized politics to make his paper [Courant] unusually argumentative. He inaugurated a tradition of American journalistic satire that would run through Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce." pg 76

·         "Sinclair Lewis, who described his only virtue as an 'almost reckless hatred of hypocrisy' and 'bunk', stood at the head of a generation of satirists that ridiculed the foibles of adolescent post-World War I America.  ......this group of writers constitutes a golden age of literary mocking in the tradition of Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce."

I also tried to find information on General H.B. Hazen, but I can't find any mention of him in any book, not even in the wonderful The Photograohic History of the Civil War from the Outlet Book Company. But having just written that, I looked him up on google and found some information on him (finally).

General William Babcock Hazen appears to be a man respected by his peers and regarded for his "courage and skill in handling his troops, and for maintaining an important position" and such things. He seems to be very prominent in many military exploits.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1646416/posts

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/wbhazen.htm - seems to be very informative and includes his obituary.