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Many American authors served in the civil war, but perhaps among the most famous is Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens. http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/mtwain/bl-mtwain-mymil.htm http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/mtwain/bl-mtwain-war.htm

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