Wilis Carr at Bleak House:  Car's story is rambling, slightly unfocused, and structured by the process of association. He is roughly eighty-two years old, having been born on Holton Mountain, Tennessee, in 1846, and he was fourteen when he served under Confederate General James Longstreet in what his hostesses prefer to call “the War Between the States.” Carr remembers that he was suffering from a fever when he reached Knoxville in 1863, which accounts for the haziness of his recollections. He does remember Bleak House clearly and tells his audience that there was a man painting a fresco on a wall downstairs during the military action. He remembers, too, that he was one of four sharpshooters sent up in the tower of the house. When one of them was killed and the other two wounded, Carr sighted an officer on a white horse dashing back and forth between the Yankee and Rebel lines. He remembers thinking that this was a hallucination induced by fever, for no officer on either side would behave so recklessly, and he shot at the man, thinking that he could do the phantom rider no harm.More. Peterson, Robert C. " Willis Carr at Bleak House". Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Rev. Ed. 2004. Salem Press. In MagillOnLiteraturePlus, http://www.ebscohost.com.