@article{351532,
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      author = {Fulton, Joe B.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351532},
      title = {The reconstruction of Mark Twain how a Confederate  bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Louisiana State University Press,},
      abstract = {When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April  1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist  to fight for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne  Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a  slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later  achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second  lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two  weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the  Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. After all, Mark  Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),  his essay "The United States of Lyncherdom"},
      recid = {351532},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 237 p.) :},
      address = {Baton Rouge :},
      year = {2010},
}