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The Private History of a Campaign that Failed is one of Mark Twain's sketches (1885), a short, highly fictionalized memoir of his two-week stint in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard. It takes place in Marion County, Missouri, and is about a group of inexperienced militiamen, the Marion Rangers, who end up killing a stranger in panic.
In this classic short story, Mark Twain recounts his experience as a second lieutenant in a militia company during the Civil War. He describes the confusion, the absurdity, and the irony of the situation, as well as the characters and events that shaped his private history.
18 avr. 2023 · The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, by Mark Twain. Mark Twain's account of the two whole weeks he spent as a Confederate soldier, fighting for the South in the Civil War. In the summer of 1861, Mark Twain went to war as a soldier for the Confederacy, riding a small yellow mule carrying a valise, a carpetbag, two gray blankets, a ...
11 déc. 2009 · Mark Twain's The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, a fictionalized version of his own wartime experiences, is different from most Civil War fiction I've read. There's been a lot written about the disillusionment of war, mostly in a tragic vein, as participants discover the hardship and horror firsthand.
30 nov. 2020 · Those two weeks are the highly fictionalized subject of his genre-bending (fiction? creative non-fiction?) short piece, “A Private History of a Campaign that Failed,” which is the subject of Benjamin Griffin’s excellent and definitive book, Mark Twain’s Civil War.
11 déc. 2019 · A fanciful portrait of his fortnight spent as a soldier, Twain's "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" told the story of the Ralls County Rangers in a humorous manner that mixed fact with fiction.
Concerning his brief experience as a Rebel soldier in Missouri, Mark Twain has presented us, indeed, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed," but this obviously burlesqued account cannot seriously be accepted as an accurate exposition of events and motives.
