What did Lewis Carroll do in the civil war?

Answer 1

Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) did not serve in the Civil War. He was a mathematician, logician, photographer, and author known for writing "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass."

Answer 2

Lewis Carroll was British and lived in England his whole life, so the American Civil War didn't have much impact on him.

When the war started in 1861, Carroll was a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford University and was friends with the college Dean and his family, the Liddells.

In 1862 he went on a rowing trip with a friend and the three daughters of the Liddell family; Lorina, Edith and Alice. To entertain them, he made up the story of Alice in Wonderland.

In 1865, which is the year the war ended, he published the story as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to much acclaim and great success.

Between 1861 and 1865 he lived his normal life; he lectured to his students, wrote books and papers on mathematics, worked as a deacon at the college's church and entertained himself with his hobby of Photography.

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