![]() ![]() This edition, revised according to Watkins’s notes from the 1890s, includes many corrections and additions and should be considered the definitive text of the book.Ĭompany Aytch is a valuable resource for understanding the life of a Confederate foot soldier. Now this classic is being rereleased by Turner Publishing in Nashville with an introduction by Franklin historical novelist Robert Hicks. In Company Aytch, Watkins, a private in the Army of Tennessee, explains what it was like at a whole series of major battles-Shiloh, Stones River, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, and Nashville, among many others-doing his duty as the musket balls and artillery shells whizzed by him. ![]() First published in 1882, this view from the ranks fills a void left by most other historical sources, which tend to concentrate on generals, strategy, troop movements, and battles. ![]() Historians, documentarians, and novelists-from Ken Burns to Margaret Mitchell-all rely, for Civil War period detail, on the text of Company Aytch or A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. ![]()
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