Mark Twains Civil War

From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twains controversial Civil War story The Private History of a Campaign That Failed. Twenty years after Appomattox Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his twoweek stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this told what he did or in his own words why he didnt do anything in the war but the article was criticized as disingenuous and it did little to address a growing curiosity about the nature of his brief military service