Mark Twain Vicksburg
In May 18, 1858 Abrahamn Lincoln about the American Civil War said : "To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary."(Usually quoted as: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet.") Mark Twain is an apprentice in a printer's office ,a journalist in his brother Orion's local newspaper, and a pilot on the Mississippi River, Samuel Langhorne Clemens came West at the time of the Civil War.He was 27 and had briefly served in a Confederate militia. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). 0riginally published in 1883, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his youthful years as a cub pilot on a steamboat paddling up and down the Mississippi River. Twain used his childhood experiences growing up along the Mississippi in a number of works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but nowhere is the river and the pilot's life more thoroughly described than in this work.On the text "Vicksburg during the trouble" , Mark Twain is describing the barbarity and the horror during the six week's bonbardment in Vicksburg. He tells how the population lived in a city utterly cut off from the world. In May 1863 , Union General Grant won several victories around Vicksburg, Mississippi, the fortified city considered essential to the Union's plans to regain control of the Mississippi River.In june 1863, Confederate General Lee decided to take the war to the enemy. His memoir is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain' s life before he began to write.Told with insight, humor, and candor, Life on the Mississippi is an American classic. My commentary of this text includes two parts : first , the city of Vicksburg during