Question

Twain's account of Colonel Rall's speech ("full of gunpowder and glory") is contrasted most vividly to the Marion Ranger's collective remorse over

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

The shooting of an unarmed rider.

In The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885), a short story by Mark Twain, he describes his experience in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard in Marion County, Missouri. He particularly depicts how he, among the group of inexperienced militiamen known as the Marion Rangers, had killed an unarmed rider, a man who was not likely an enemy.