Company Aytch: A Classic Memoir of the Civil War

Company Aytch: A Classic Memoir of the Civil War

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,Â Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal view of the events as related by a most engaging writerâ‚¬"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 aÂ 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 itâ‚¬"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.Â
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1999-11-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780452281240

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Plume
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1999-11-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780452281240