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The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

The Private History of a Campaign that Failed is one of Mark Twain's sketches , 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.


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“An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.”

"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed", The Century, Vol. 31, No. 2, December 1885 http://books.google.com/books?id=-1UiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA193. Anthologized in The American Claimant, and Other Stories and Sketches http://books.google.com/books?id=1T00Sc_cVYIC (1898)

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