Mark Twain's Civil War
Twain, Mark / Griffin, Benjamin / Kemble, E.W.
From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twain's controversial Civil War story "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his two-week stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this told what he did (or, in his own words, why he "didn't do anything") in the war, but the article was criticized as disingenuous, and it did little to address ...