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Likewise, in his recount of the Battle of Shiloh in What I Saw of Shiloh, he gives a dismal description of what battle was like. "Here in 1862 were some fields and a house or two; now there are a national cemetery and other improvements"[1] somewhat humorously give an indication of the loses which occurred at Shiloh. According to Roy Morris Jr., the casualties were "more than had died in the Revolutionary War, the war of 1812, and the Mexican War put together."[2] He also goes on to say that "The sights and sounds of Shiloh would stay with Bierce for the rest of his life, occasioning some of his finest writing and foreshadowing and directly influencing an entire generation of American writers, men whose own take on war owed a great deal to his seminal works."[3] Furthermore, Bierce portrays the battle as both glorious and dreadful, which, one can assume, is a description which can be applied to whole war. War is defined in the Devil's Dictionary as "A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political conditions is a period of international amity."[4]

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[1] Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, What I Saw of Shiloh, http://www.ambrosebierce.org/main.html

[2] Roy Morris Jr., Ambrose Bierce Alone in Bad Company

[3] Alone in Bad Company,

[4] The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, edited by David E. Shultz and S.T. Joshi