Co. Aytch
By Sam Watkins (Exploring America Units 12-13)
Sam Watkins, from Maury County, Tennessee, was 21 years old when the War Between the States began in 1861. He marched and camped and fought with Company H of the First Tennessee Regiment from the beginning until the end of the war. In 1881-82, Sam's memoirs of the Civil War were printed in the Columbia Herald newspaper and then published as the book Co. Aytch.
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