![]() Incredibly, Watkins was not an outlier in his company. The absence of slavery from the memoir is staggering, particularly considering that Sam's father, Frederick, owned more than 100 enslaved African Americans. ![]() In framing his war narrative, Watkins was careful to exclude any significant discussion of the war's causes and its continuing effects on the Middle Tennessee society in which he lived. The First Tennessee continued its hard service in the Army of Tennessee through the end of the war, and Watkins recorded his and his comrade's wartime experience for posterity two decades later with his wildly successful memoir.Īs enduring a piece of Civil War literature as Company Aytch has been, it is not without its limitations. Watkins fought on both days at Chickamauga, and his account of the chaos in the woods along Brotherton Road on September 19th stands as one of the best accounts of the battle by any participant. ![]() His unit served in the mountains of Western Virginia during the brutal winter of 1861-62 and received its baptism by fire at Shiloh that April. Despite his low rank, Watkins has found immortality through his 1882 memoir Company Aytch.īorn in Maury County, Tennessee in 1840, Watkins enlisted in the army when Tennessee seceded in 1861. Watkins is today one of the most well-known common soldiers in Civil War history. ![]() A Private in Company H, First Tennessee Infantry, Sam R. ![]()
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