CHAPTER VIII.
WINTER-QUARTERS An impracticable country--Movements suspended--Experienced troops ordered away--My orders from Washington--Rosecrans objects--A disappointment--Winter organization of the Department--Sifting our material--Courts-martial--Regimental schools--Drill and picket duty--A military execution--Effect upon the army--Political sentiments of the people--Rules of conduct toward them--Case of Mr.
Parks--Mr.Summers--Mr.Patrick--Mr.Lewis Ruffner--Mr.
Doddridge--Mr.B.F.

Smith--A house divided against itself--Major Smith's journal--The contrabands--A fugitive-slave case--Embarrassments as to military jurisdiction..