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Contents Introduction NONFICTION from Roughing It (1872) 21 Mark Twain's First Civil War Autobiography (1877) 29 from "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion" (1877) 35 from Life on the Mississippi (1883) 37 "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (1885) 47 "An Author's Soldiering" (1887) 79 "General Grant's Grammar" (1887) 83 "How Twain Saved the Union" (190 I) 89 A Selection from Mark Twain's Autobiographical Dictations (1907) 95 Albert Bigelow Paine, ''The Soldier" (1912) 103 Absalom C. Grimes, "Campaigning with Mark Twain" (1926) 111 FICTION Anonymous, "An Exchange of Prisoners" (1863) 131 "Lucretia Smith's Soldier" (1864) 137 "The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract" (1870) 145 from The Gilded Age (1873) 157 "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" (1874) 169 "A Curious Experience" (1881) 179 Coda: Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date) (c. 1900) 213 Notes 215 Sources 219 ...