The Capture of Fort Donelson, Part I by Lew Wallace From The Century Magazine, Vol. XXIX, Dec., 1884 The village of Dover was -- and for that matter yet is -- what our English cousins would call the shire-town of the county of Stewart, Tennessee. In 1860 it was a village unknown to fame, meager in population, architecturally poor. There was a court-house in the place, and a tavern, remembered ...

The Capture of Fort Donelson, Part II by Lew Wallace, From The Century Magazine, Vol. XXIX, Dec., 1884 General U. S. Grant THE BATTLE OF THE GUN-BOATS. There are few things connected with the operations against Fort Donelson so relieved of uncertainty as this: that when General Grant at Fort Henry became fixed in the resolution to undertake the movement, his primary object was the capture of the ...

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Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 . Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ / by Lew Wallace Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library | The entire work ( KB) | Table of Contents for this work | | All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage | Header Front Matter Book 1 BOOK FIRST. Chapter 1 CHAPTER I. INTO THE DESERT. Chapter 2 CHAPTER II. MEETING OF THE WISE MEN. Chapter 3 CHAPTER III. THE ATHENIAN ...