¶ … Aytch: A Confederate's Memoir of the Civil War
The Civil War was one of the bloodiest periods in American History. In contemporary times it has also proved to be one of the most glamorized periods of American History. Films such as Gone with the Wind and Birth of the Nation both attest to this fact. However, for serious students of the period, there remains a wealth of real life testimony from battlefield, the words of individuals who suffered and died in the service of both Union and Confederate armies. The memoir Co. Aytch: A Confederate's Memoir of the Civil War, is a Civil War battlefield account that is neither beautiful nor romanticized. It is a real life dramatization of the despair often faced by members of the 'losing' army in that particular conflict.
Aytch began his Civil War experience as a relatively idealistic young defender of the new Confederacy. Early in May 1861, at age twenty-one, one Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H, as a private, to fight for the Southern Cause. He emerged as one of only seven to survive every one of his regiment's battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. This statistical figure alone would be evidence of the tremendous carnage faced by members of the Confederate Army. However, Watkins also included in his retrospective book a number of stories about...
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