Co. Aytch First Tennessee Regiment
The only thing better than Sam Watkins is more Sam Watkins. This is a marvelous expansion of the best memoir of a fighting soldier south of the Mason-Dixon line we have. --Ken Burns, filmmakerSam Watkins's memoirCo. Aytchhas long been a classic of Civil War literature, and this new edition only makes it more so. His revisions and additions enhance and refine his story. Some of them are pointed, others hilarious, but they all add depth to one of the must-read soldier narratives of that conflict. --William C. Davis, Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia TechSam's tender memories of those far from halcyon days of his youth, come alive more clearly than they ever have before. His bird's eye view of a soldier's life and his sense of fairness and goodness in a time when little of either were to be found, coupled with his almost Forrest Gumpian ability to be in the right place at the right time has drawn historians, scholars and boy soldiers, like myself, to his tales for over century. All of us, alike, have something to celebrate in the publication of this edition ofCo. Aytchwith Sam's own revisions. --Robert Hicks, author,The Widow of the South