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''The Private History of a Campaign that Failed'' is one of
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has pr ...
's sketches (1885), a short, highly fictionalized memoir of his two-week stint in the pro-Confederate
Missouri State Guard The Missouri State Guard (MSG) was a military force established by the Missouri General Assembly on May 11, 1861. While not a formation of the Confederate States Army, the Missouri State Guard fought alongside Confederate troops and, at variou ...
. It takes place in
Marion County, Missouri Marion County is a county located in the northeastern portion of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,781. Its county seat is Palmyra. Unique from most third-class counties in the state, Marion has two county courthouses, th ...
, 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. In fact, Twain saw no action; he quipped that during his service he spent more time retreating while being hunted than fighting.)Civil War Saga Mark Twain
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Television film

In 1981, a made-for-television
film adaptation A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dia ...
of ''The Private History of a Campaign that Failed'' was broadcast on PBS starring
Edward Herrmann Edward Kirk Herrmann (July 21, 1943 – December 31, 2014) was an American actor, director, and writer. He was perhaps best known for his portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the miniseries ''Eleanor and Franklin'' (1976) and 1982 film ...
,
Pat Hingle Martin Patterson Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. His first film was '' On the Waterfront'' in 1954. He often pla ...
, Joseph Adams, Harry Crosby and Kelly Pease. The film also adapts Twain's short story " The War Prayer".


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Edward Herrmann Edward Kirk Herrmann (July 21, 1943 – December 31, 2014) was an American actor, director, and writer. He was perhaps best known for his portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the miniseries ''Eleanor and Franklin'' (1976) and 1982 film ...
as The Stranger *
Pat Hingle Martin Patterson Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. His first film was '' On the Waterfront'' in 1954. He often pla ...
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


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* Short stories by Mark Twain American Civil War memoirs 1885 short stories Short stories adapted into films Marion County, Missouri Missouri State Guard 1981 television films 1981 films 1981 comedy-drama films American television films American comedy-drama films Films directed by Peter H. Hunt Works about Missouri 1980s American films {{story-stub