The Twain list,
   Chapter 35 of LOM paraphrases stories that the author claims were
told to him by survivors of the siege of Vicksburg; in a passage deleted
from the published version, he says these stories were "gathered from my
old note-books."
   Does anyone know whether this claim about the note-books is accurate?
Has anyone speculated that the accounts may have come from Clemens
himself, originally? I've found no discussion of this topic in Horst
Kruse's book on LOM or in the versions of LOM edited by Wager, Cox, or
McKibben/Danly.  Thanks to anyone who has information.

Christopher Morris