Company Aytch

Or,a Side Show of the Big Show And Other Sketches

Sam Watkins, Thomas M Inge

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English

New American Library
01 November 1999

History of the Americas; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Military history; Other warfare & defence issues

Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.

Among the plethora of books about the Civil War,Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal view of the events as related by a most engaging writer-a man with Twain-like talents who served as a foot soldier for four long years in the Confederate army.

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 and Chickamauga 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 aGeorgia 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.

This edition of Company Aytch also contains six previously uncollected articles by Sam Watkins, plus other valuable supplementary materials, including a map and period illustrations, a glossary of technical and military terms, a chronology of events, a concise history of Watkins's regiment, a biographical directory of individuals mentioned in the narrative, and geographic and topical indexes.

By: Sam Watkins
Introduction by: Thomas M Inge
Imprint: New American Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9780452281240
ISBN 10: 0452281245
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 November 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction Textual Note Acknowledgments ""CO. AYTCH"" Other Sketches: The ""Fighting"" Forty-eighth Tennessee Regiment Reminiscences of Hood's Tennessee Campaign Snow Battle at Dalton–Little Jimmie White Battle Near Adairsville A Gambler at Cards in Dalton Dead Angle, on the Kennesaw Line Chronology A Concise History of the First Tennessee Infantry Regiment Glossary Topical Index Geographic Index Biographical Directory and Index"

Samuel ""Sam"" Rush Watkins (1839-1901) was a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today for his memoir Company Aytch- Or, a Side Show of the Big Show, often heralded as one of the best primary sources about the common soldier's Civil War experience. Of the 120 men who enlisted in Company H in 1861, Sam Watkins was one of only seven alive when General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman. Soon after the war ended, Watkins began writing his memoir, now heralded by many historians as one of the best war memoirs of all time. Watkins captures the pride, misery, glory, and horror experienced by the common foot soldier. Watkins is featured and quoted in Ken Burns' documentary The Civil War.

Reviews for Company Aytch: Or,a Side Show of the Big Show And Other Sketches

This lively memoir is part of an ilk within the genre that contends with the harsh barbarism of combat using wry humor. Surviving impossible situations and seemingly countless battles, Confederate soldier Watkins manages not only to capture clearly a soldier's experience but also inadvertently to write a solid history of the war itself. <b>Benjamin Brudner, <i>Library Journal Reviews</i></b>