The Scout: A Tale of Sam Davis, Annotated.

This book is a novel based on the capture and execution of "the boy hero of the Confederacy," Sam Davis of Tennessee. Invading Federal Troops of Grenville Dodge's Seventh Kansas "Jayhawkers" captured Davis, a member of the elite "Coleman Scouts" near Pulaski, Tennessee and found in his boots and in his saddle bags information as to the strength of the Federal forces in Tennessee, their movements, and descriptions of the works at Nashville and other points. Davis would not reveal the source ...