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N2  - 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"
AB  - 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"
T1  - The reconstruction of Mark Twainhow a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature /
DA  - c2010.
CY  - Baton Rouge :
AU  - Fulton, Joe B.,
CN  - Proquest Ebook Central
CN  - PS1342.S58
PB  - Louisiana State University Press,
PP  - Baton Rouge :
PY  - c2010.
N1  - Description based on print version record.
ID  - 351532
KW  - Literature and society
SN  - 9780807138045 (electronic bk.)
SN  - 0807138045 (electronic bk.)
TI  - The reconstruction of Mark Twainhow a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature /
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