Co. Aytch
Subtitle: or, A side show of the big show and other sketches
By: Sam R. Watkins ; edited and with an introduction by M. Thomas Inge.
Contributors: Inge, M. Thomas.
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Watkins, Samuel R; Confederate States of America. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 1st. Company H; Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
Genres: Personal narratives, Confederate.; Personal narratives.; Regimental histories.
Other titles: Co. Aytch; Company H; Side show of the big show
Description: "Samuel Rush Watkins was a private in the Confederate Army, a twenty-one-year-old Southerner from Tennessee who knew about war but had never experienced it firsthand."--BOOK JACKET.

"With the immediacy of a dispatch from the front lines, here are Watkins' firsthand observations and recollections, from combat on the battlefields of Shiloh ("On Sunday morning, the order was given for the whole army to advance, and to attack immediately. The fire opened - a ripping, roaring boom, bang!") and Chickamauga ("We debouched through the woods, firing as we marched. The Yankee line was about two hundred yards off.

In ten minutes we were face to face with the foe") to encounters with Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, from the tedium of grueling marches to the terror of fellow soldiers' deaths, from breaking bread with a Georgia family to confronting the enemy eye to eye."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xix) and indexes.
Originally published: Nashville, Tenn. : Cumberland Presbyterian Pub. House, 1882.