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"The Private History of a Campaign that Failed" is one of Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
'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
Marion County, Missouri

Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 28,289. Its county seat is Palmyra, Missouri. The county was organized in 1826 and named for Gen....
, and is about a group of inexperienced militiamen, the Marion Rangers. The group's jumpiness is expressed when they kill an innocent horseman mistaking him for a Yankee scout.








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"The Private History of a Campaign that Failed" is one of Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
'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
Marion County, Missouri

Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 28,289. Its county seat is Palmyra, Missouri. The county was organized in 1826 and named for Gen....
, and is about a group of inexperienced militiamen, the Marion Rangers. The group's jumpiness is expressed when they kill an innocent horseman mistaking him for a Yankee scout.

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