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ArkGamer t1_iypjkc1 wrote

I'm embarassed that I thought Missiouri was a confederate state.

Apparently they were completely torn and setup state governments for both sides and sent soldiers for both sides.

As crazy as things have been these last few years, this really puts things in perspective for how good we have it right now.

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makkdom t1_iypnhek wrote

Mark Twain (then plain Samuel Clemens) fought for the Confederacy for two weeks before quitting and heading to Nevada along with his older brother who was appointed to a position in the territorial government there. He wrote a (mostly fictional) account of his wartime experience in a sketch entitle "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed."

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