Mark Twain's Civil War

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Notes Introduction "Most of his well-known works": Congressional Record 86, pt. (January 24, 1940): 646. 2 "not of the same kidney": Congressional Record 86, pt. 1 (January 25,1940): 698. 2 "When the call to arms came": ibid., 699. 3 "I take it the gentleman": ibid. 3 "Whether the desertion": "Ranger of Hannibal," New York Times, February 7,1940,16. 4 "land-stealing": quoted in "Slander's Mask of Humor," New York Times, March 24,1901,22. 4 "It is unfortunate": reprinted in ibid. 6 "illegal, unconstitutional, and revolutionary": quoted in William E. Parrish, Turbulent Partnership: Missouri and the Union, 18611865 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1963), 17. 6 "Missouri, you know": ibid., 2l. 7 "Having learned": quoted in Hans Christian Adamson, Rebellion in Missouri, 1861: Nathaniel Lyon and His Army ofthe West (Philadelphia : Chilton Company, 1961), 128. 8 "quite a number": "Returning," Hannibal Daily Messenger, June 23,1861,2. 8 "The incident was invented": Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, vol. 1 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912), 169. 9 "I want you to feel": Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (1990; New York: Broadway Books, 1998), 179-80. 10 "A boy's life": Mark Twain, "Chapters from My AutobiographyXVII ," North American Review, May 3, 1907,4-5. 11 "During the civil war": "How Lieut. Churchill Escaped from Boers," New York Times, December 13, 1900, 2. 12 "incapacitated by fatigue": Mark Twain, The Autobiography of 215 Notes Mark Twain, ed. Charles Neider (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959), 102. 12 "a boy of a quite uncommonly sweet and gentle disposition": ibid., 72. 12 "In my schoolboy days": Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography , vol. 1, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (New York: Harper & Brothers , 1924), 101. 13 "there was nothing about the slavery": ibid., 124. 13 "the most desouthernized": William Dean Howells, My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York: Harper & Brothers , 1910),35. 14 "was entirely satisfied": ibid., 36. 14 "did measureless harm": Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (Boston : James R. Osgood and Company, 1883),467-69. 15 "While we await": "Red, White, and Blue," Harper's Weekly, October 19, 1861,667. 16 "Put Huck & Tom & Jim": Mark Twain's Notebooks 6- Journals: Volume III (1883-1891), ed. Robert Pack Browning, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1979), 105. Headnotes 79 "literary bridging": quoted in Fred W. Lorch, The Trouble Begins at Eight: Mark Twain's Lecture Tours (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1968), 164. 83 "the book has not been read": Matthew Arnold, "General Grant," in General Grant by Matthew Arnold with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966), 54. 83 "I found a language": ibid., 13. 131 Edgar Marquess Branch and Robert H. Hirst have noted: Mark Twain, Early Tales 6- Sketches, Volume 2: 1864-1865, ed. Edgar Marquess Branch and Robert H. Hirst (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 125. 145 "exclusively and professedly humorous": Mark Twain, "Memoranda ," Galaxy, May 1870,717. 216 Notes 157 "scarcely a chapter": Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company , 1873), vi. 169 "Our Civil War was a blot": Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, "Mark Twain No Pacifist," New York Herald Tribune, November 19, 1941,22. 213 "religion," "furnished, cut and dried": Mark Twain, "As Regards Patriotism," in A Pen Warmed-up in Hell: Mark Twain in Protest, ed. Frederick Anderson (New York: Harper & Row, 1972),28. 217 ...