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. With the immediacy of a dispatch from the front lines, here are Watkins' firsthand observations and recollections, from combat on the battlefields of Shiloh 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. By turns humorous and harrowing, fervent and philosophical, Company Aytch offers a rare and exhilarating glimpse of the Civil War through the eyes of a man who lived it - and lived to tell about it.
Info
ISBN: 9780452281240
Published Date: November 1, 1999
Publisher: Plume Books
Language: English
Page Count: 274
Size: 8.04" l x 5.30" w x 0.66" h
Category
History & Geography
Subject
United States - Civil War