On: Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldi...

[DennisP]

Fortunately his little band in uniform chose to avoid battle at every opportunity.

[jacquesm → DennisP]

I doubt he could have known that ahead of time. But given the way things turned out maybe the writing was already on the wall. But still, it could have easily turned out different as it did for 250K+ other confederate soldiers.