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The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
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Wikipedia article
'The Private History of a Campaign that Failed' is one of Mark Twain'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, and is about a group of inexperienced militiamen, the Marion Rangers, who end up killing a stranger in panic. (In 1887, he claimed before Union veterans that he had been in one battle in which a stranger had been killed in the summer of 1861.[https://www.abroadintheyard.com/mark-twain-brilliantly-explains-why-he-turned-his-back-on-american-civil-war/ Mark Twain explains why he turned his back in the Civil War] In fact, Twain saw no action; he quipped that during his service he spent more time retreating while being hunted than fighting.)[https://www.historynet.com/mark-twains-guide-tumultuous-century.htm#:~:text=Twain%20was%20a%20steamboat%20pilot%20on%20the%20Mississippi,whenever%20they%20heard%20a%20rumor%20of%20the%20enemy. History net][https://civilwarsaga.com/mark-twains-civil-war-experience/ Civil War Saga Mark Twain]
Television film
In 1981, a made-for-television film adaptation of 'The Private History of a Campaign that Failed' was broadcast on PBS starring Edward Herrmann, Pat Hingle, Joseph Adams, Harry Crosby and Kelly Pease. The film also adapts Twain's short story "The War Prayer".
Cast
*Edward Herrmann as The Stranger
*Pat Hingle as Col. Ralls
*Joseph Adams as Capt. Tom Lyman
*Harry Crosby as Cpl. Ed Stevens
*Kelly Pease as Cab
*Gary McCleery as Second Lieutenant
*Roy Cockrum as Sgt. Bowers
References
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