![]() ![]() Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, had grown up amid slavery in the South. ![]() The few, the band of brothers, called themselves the Marion Rangers, with Twain entering their ranks as a second lieutenant. Claiborne Fox Jackson’s call of 50,000 militia to defend their home state. The 25-year-old Missourian, alongside 14 other idealistic young men, answered Gov. Louis Magazine, on a small yellow mule carrying a valise, a carpetbag, two gray blankets, a homemade quilt, a squirrel rifle, 20 yards of rope, a frying pan and, perhaps most importantly of all, an umbrella. ![]() ![]() In the summer of 1861, the former riverboat pilot went to war, according to the St. “These, by their very numbers, are respectable and therefore entitled to a sort of voice, - not a loud one, but a modest one not a boastful one but an apologetic one. “Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, and then stepped out again, permanently,” he continued. “You have heard from a great many people who did something in the war is it not fair and right that you listen a little moment to one who started out to do something in it but didn’t?” wrote Mark Twain in his semi-fictionalized wartime account, titled “ The Private History of a Campaign That Failed.” Mark Twain Fought for the South in the Civil War. ![]()
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