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The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington
Had there been no Civil War, the eminent American author known as Mark Twain would likely have spent his life as Sam Clemens, the Mississippi River steamboat pilot. When the war came and the steamboats stopped running, Clemens served two weeks in the...
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Had there been no Civil War, the eminent American author known as Mark Twain would likely have spent his life as Sam Clemens, the Mississippi River steamboat pilot. When the war came and the steamboats stopped running, Clemens served two weeks in the Missouri State Guard before he fled west to begin his career as a writer. After the Civil War dramatically altered the course of Twain's life and career, his thoughts and stories about the war were published widely. Mark Twain's Civil War marks the first occasion for readers to survey the full range of his Civil War writings in one volume. The boo
Cover; Mark Twain's Civil War; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; NONFICTION; from Roughing It (1872); Mark Twain's First Civil War Autobiography (1877); from "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion" (1877); from Life on the Mississippi (1883); "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (1885); "An Author's Soldiering" (1887); "General Grant's Grammar" (1887); "How Twain Saved the Union" (1901); A Selection from Mark Twain's Autobiographical Dictations (1907); Albert Bigelow Paine, "The Soldier" (1912); Absalom C. Grimes, "Campaigning with Mark Twain" (1926); FICTION
Anonymous, "An Exchange of Prisoners" (1863)"Lucretia Smith's Soldier" (1864); "The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract" (1870); from The Gilded Age (1873); "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" (1874); "A Curious Experience" (1881); Coda: Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date) (c. 1900); Notes; Sources;
