Mark Twain, a Biography — volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
Mark Twain, a Biography — volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937
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Military effectiveness is a matter ofleaders and tactics. Mark Twain's own Private History of a 'Campaign that Failed' is, ofcourse, built on this episode. He gives us a delicious account, even ifit does not strikingly resemble the occurrence. The story might havebeen still better if he had not introduced the shooting of the soldier inthe dark. The incident was invented, of course, to present the realhorror of war, but it seems incongruous in this burlesque campaign, and, to some extent at leas...t, it missed fire in its intention. --[In a book recently published, Mark Twain's "nephew" is quoted asauthority for the statement that Mark Twain was detailed for river duty, captured, and paroled, captured again, and confined in atobacco-warehouse in St. Louis, etc. Mark Twain had but one nephew:Samuel E. Moffett, whose Biographical Sketch (vol. Xxii, Mark Twain'sWorks) contains no such statement; and nothing of the sort occurred. ] XXXI OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY When Madame Caprell prophesied that Orion Clemens would hold office undergovernment, she must have seen with true clairvoyant vision.
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