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Confederate bushwhacker Mark Twain in the shadow of the Civil War

"Confederate Bushwhacker is a microbiography set in the most important and pivotal year in the life of its subject. In 1885, Mark Twain was at the peak of his career as an author and a businessman, as his own publishing firm brought out not only the U.S. edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but...

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Main Author: Loving, Jerome, 1941-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Lebanon NH : University Press of New England, 2013.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Humorists, American > 19th century > Biography.
Veterans > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Grant, Ulysses S. > (Ulysses Simpson), > 1822-1885. > Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910. > Private history of a campaign that failed.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude : "Mark Twain's war experiences," New York Times, October 7, 1877
  • On the eve of Huckleberry Finn
  • Skirting the Mason-Dixon
  • The greatest general who ever lived
  • March of the white man
  • "The private history of a campaign that failed"
  • The "private" history and the "personal" memoir
  • The killing of strangers
  • Connecticut Yankee.

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