Co. Aytch: Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment: Or a Side Show of the Big Show (1900)
Sam R Watkins
Co. Aytch: Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment: Or a Side Show of the Big Show (1900)
Sam R Watkins
Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H, to fight for the Confederacy. Of the 120 original recruits in his company, Watkins was one of only seven to survive every one of its battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a house full of young ‘rebels’ clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows, he wrote this remarkable account of Co. Aytch – its common foot soldiers, its commanders, its Yankee enemies, its victories and defeats, and its ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865.
Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. Among Civil War memoirs, it is considered a classic – a living testament to one man’s enduring humanity, courage, and wisdom in the midst of death and destruction.
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