A Slight Demonstration
 A Slight Demonstration is a 2007 book about the 1864 Civil War Battle of Decatur a pivotal event in Confederate General John B. Hood's disastrous Tennessee Campaign late in the war in which a Union force of only 2-5000 soldiers prevented Hood's 23000 strong army from crossing the Tennessee River. It was written by Noel Carpenter a former Decatur native and Air Force officer. The book is published by Legacy Books & Letters of Austin Texas.