Dr. George B Peters om 7 May 1863 did shoot and kill Earl Van Dorn at Spring Hill, Tennessee. Peters accused Van Dorn of violating the sanctity of the good Doctors marriage.
In 1902 Octavia Van Dorn Sulivane Ross wrote A SOLDIER'S HONOR a tribute to her brother. Octavia offers the notion that Peters was a hired assassin assigned to kill any key Confederate commander under what ever pretext he and his wife could devise. Searching for any information on Peters and his wife.
The doctor and his wife divorced soon after the killing but after Peters came into a large land grant in Arkansas and love and marriage were rekindled