. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . of an army. So wellknown was his leniency, that an officer of his staff made a standing offer toeat the fiist man the general should shoot for any crime. Speaking to Col-onel Leigh about military dignity and discipline, Marshall said he regardedthese things as the decrepitudes of the military art. General Williams, whowas his ablest lieutenant, was a man of very different mold, proud, imperi-ous, a born soldier, who l^elieved \\\ discii^line to its last extremity. With his little
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . of an army. So wellknown was his leniency, that an officer of his staff made a standing offer toeat the fiist man the general should shoot for any crime. Speaking to Col-onel Leigh about military dignity and discipline, Marshall said he regardedthese things as the decrepitudes of the military art. General Williams, whowas his ablest lieutenant, was a man of very different mold, proud, imperi-ous, a born soldier, who l^elieved \\\ discii^line to its last extremity. With his little command Marshall afterward successfully defended the vitalinterests of the Confederacy in south-west Virginia, so long as he remainedin the service. In the summer of 1863 he was transferred to the MississippiDepartment, but resigned his commission because he believed that he hadbeen badly treated by President Davis in not having received the govern-mental support which he thought he deserved and which the necessities ofhis command required. THE CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON. BY LEW WALLACE. MAJOE-GEXERAX, U. P. THE village of Dover was — andfor that matter yet is—what oiu-English cousins would call the shire-town of the county of Stewart, Tennessee. In 1860 itwas a village unknown to fame, meager in population,architectuiaUy poor. There was a couit-house in theplace, and a tavern, remembered now as double-storied,unpainted, and with windows of eight-by-ten glass, which, if the panes may be likened to eyes, were both squint and through them gave the street outside the appearance of a sedgyslough of yellow backwater. The entertainment furnished man and beastwas good of the kind; though at the time mentioned a sleepy traveler, espe-cially if he were of the North, might have been somewhat vexed by theexplosions which spiced the good things of a debating society that nightlytook possession of the bar-room, to tliscuss the relative fighting quahties ofthe oppos
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