Mark Twain's Civil War

This collection of Twain's fiction and nonfiction on the subject "provides insight into the war's influence on this great American writer" (The Post and Courier, Charleston).

Had there been no Civil War, the eminent American author known as Mark Twain would likely have spent his life as Sam Clemens, the Mississippi River steamboat pilot. When the war came and the steamboats stopped running, Clemens served two weeks in the Missouri State Guard before he fled west to begin his career as a wr...