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A 5 page essay that offers an analysis of Samuel Watkins' Co. Aytch. This is a first-person account of the Civil War authored by a man who served as a private for the Confederacy in the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H. The writer describes the themes touched on by Watkins. No additional sources cited.
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to fight for the Confederacy. Four years later, Sam Watkins was still alive, but he was only one of seven survivors from the companys original 120 recruits. Twenty years later
-- with a "house full of young rebels clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows" -- Watkins began the task of recording his experiences in battles from Shiloh
to Nashville. His extraordinary, firsthand account of battle is the story of the common foot soldier. Watkins stresses that this account is not a history of the war, but rather
a personal memoir -- what one soldier saw, felt, endured and experienced. In this volume, Watkins tries mightily to uphold the chivalric standards of the Old South and remains true
to this code despite the immense suffering that he witnesses. The book succeeds despite the authors allegiance to a dying culture. Watkins relates what he saw -- and he
saw a lot -- in a folksy, down-home manner that is draws the reader into the world of the American Civil War. He either participated in or was close to
at least half the battles from the Civil War. He was at Manassas, Shiloh, Chatanooga, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Atlanta, plus a half dozen others that are less famous. He
was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, his hat was blown off by a cannonball.
On occasion, Watkins accounts are a trifle hard to believe, which makes the reader wonder if twenty years of retelling his stories prior to writing them down has stretched
the truth and altered memory here and there. Nevertheless, Watkins has the ability to switch smoothly from a detailed description of men fighting the "Hundred Days Battle northwest of
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