Mark Twain In Battle

It is related that Mark Twain served two weeks as a soldier in the civil war. He was attached to Jeff Thompson's command in the Confedérate army in Missouri. His own account of nis military experiences, told in one of his private letters, is asfollows: "We never won any victories to speak of. We uever oould get the enemy to stay still when we wanted to fight, and when the enemy feit like fighting we were generally on the move."