Mark Twain's Civil War : "the private history of a campaign that failed" /

Mark Twain's Civil War : "the private history of a campaign that failed" /

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"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. Ostens...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (Author)
Other Authors: Griffin, Benjamin, 1968- (Editor), Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor), 1861-1933 (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2019]
Subjects:
American Civil War (1861-1865)
1861-1865
Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Fiction.
Soldiers.
War and literature.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.
United States.
United States > Confederate States of America.
Fiction.
History.
Autobiographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The private history of a campaign that failed
  • Explanatory notes
  • Appendix A: Mark Twain's speech at Hartford, Connecticut, 2 October 1877
  • Appendix B: Absalom Grimes, "Mark Twain's campaign," 31 July 1886.