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In May, 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam Watkins of Columbia,
Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H, to
fight for the Confederacy. Of the 120 original recruits, Watkins
was one of just seven to survive every battle. Watkins, who
wrote this memoir twenty years later, was a natural storyteller
who balances the horrors of war with an irrepressible sense of
humor. Among Civil War memoirs, this is considered a classic.
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"The Death Watch"
"One more scene I can remember. Kind friends-you that know
nothing of a soldier's life--I ask you in all candor not to
doubt the following lines in this sketch. You have no doubt read
of the old Roman soldier found amid the ruins of Pompeii, who
had stood there for sixteen hundred years, and when he was
excavated was found at his post with his gun clasped in his
skeleton hands. You believe this because it is written in
history. I have heard, politicians tell it. I have heard it told
from the sacred desk. It is true; no one doubts it.
Now, were I to tell something that happened in this nineteenth
century exactly similar, you would hardly believe it. But
whether you believe it or not, it is for you to say. At a little
village called Hampshire Crossing, our regiment was ordered to
go to a little stream called St. John's Run, to relieve the 14th
Georgia Regiment and the 3rd Arkansas. I cannot tell the facts
as I desire to. In fact, my hand trembles so, and my feelings
are so overcome, that it is hard for me to write at all. But we
went to the place that we were ordered to go to, and when we
arrived there we found the guard sure enough. If I remember
correctly, there were just eleven of them. Some were sitting
down and some were laying down; but each and every one was as
cold and as hard frozen as the icicles that hung from their
hands and faces and clothing-dead!
They had died at their post of duty. Two of them, a little in
advance of the others, were standing with their guns in their
hands, as cold and as hard frozen as a monument of
marble-standing sentinel with loaded guns in their frozen hands!
The tale is told. Were they true men? Does He who noteth the
sparrow's fall, and numbers the hairs of our heads, have any
interest in one like ourselves? Yes He doeth all things well.
Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His consent."
From the book Co. Aytch, A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
by Sam R. Watkins, page 38- Copyright 1962 by MacMillan
Publishing Company Copyright renewed in 1990 by Simon & Schuster
Inc. Sam began to write of his experiences in 1881as a series
for his hometown newspaper, the Columbia, Tennessee, Herald.
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Another story from “Company Aytch”
My great great grandfather, Green Rieves was in “Company Aytch”
and is mentioned twice in the book. His name is spelled Reives
in the index but is spelled correctly in the text. I have four
great great grandfathers who fought in the war and all four were
from Maury County, Tennessee. Chuck Demastus
NATHANIEL GREEN RIEVES
Company "H" 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment
Almost every soldier in the army-generals, colonels, captains,
as well as privates-had a nickname; ...Green Rieves was called
"Devil Horse"... (Sam R. Watkins, "Co. Aytch", c. 1962 Macmillan
Publishing Co. (paperback) p. 71)
The Yankees seemed determined not to fight, no way we could fix
it. Every now and then they would send over a "feeler," to see
how we were getting along. Sometimes these "feelers" would do
some damage. I remember one morning we were away over a hill,
and every now and then here would come one of those lazy-looking
"feelers," just bouncing along as if he were in no hurry, called
in military "ricochet." They were very easy to dodge, if you
could see them in time. Well, one morning as before remarked,
Lieutenant John Whittaker, then in command of Company H, and
myself were sitting down eating breakfast out of the same tin
plate. We were sopping gravy out with some cold cornbread, when
Captain W. C. Flournoy, of the Martin Guards, hallooed out,
"Look out, Sam; look! look!" I just turned my head, and in
turning, the cannonball knocked my hat off, and striking
Lieutenant Whittaker full in the side of the head, carried away
the whole of the skull part, leaving only the face. His brains
fell in the plate from which we were sopping, and his head fell
in my lap, deluging my face and clothes with his blood. Poor
fellow, he never knew what hurt him. His spirit went to his God
that morning. Green Rieves carried the poor boy off on his
shoulder, and, after wrapping him up in a blanket, buried him.
His bones are at Jonesboro today....Green Rieves was the only
person at the funeral; no tears of a loving mother or a gentle
sister were there. Green interred his body, and there it will
remain till the resurrection.
(From: "Co. Aytch" by Sam R. Watkins c. 1962 Macmillan
Publishing Co. (paperback) pp. 209, 210.)
Written twenty years after the war, Private Watkins gives his
account of serving with Company H, First Tennessee Regiment. Of
the 120 original men in the unit, Watkins was only one of seven
left at the end.
REview from Amazon.com: Twenty years after participating in the
war that reshaped American history forever, Sam Watkins sat down
to write his memoirs, without benefit of journal or notes. He
commenced his tale with a short, folksy parable of the cause of
the war, as Southerners saw it. He then quickly launched into
telling the tale as he viewed it - not from the heights of a
general officer, but from the mud and dust covered ground-eye
view of a common "webfoot" infantry soldier. In doing so, he
created what is perhaps the best, most readable, and most
compelling account of a Civil War infantry man that has ever
seen print.
Watkins told his tale in an easy, conversational style. The book
is not written as a single narrative, but as a collection of
tales and memories, just as he might have told them to friends
and family around his hearth. His antidotal style put side by
side humorous tales and the horrors of war that he observed,
showing how casual a thing gruesome death became to a soldier.
He wrote with great feeling, telling the reader when recalling a
particular incident left him overwhelmed with emotion still
after twenty years, and constantly referencing his religious
faith that he would someday see all of his fallen comrades again
in a better world. He hid nothing of himself, and that candid
emotion sets his book apart, and gives it its greatness.
This book is not a history, per say. Watkins constantly reminded
his readers of this. It is a collection of impressions of what
it was like to be one of the little men doing the shooting and
killing - the men who history mostly overlooks. "Co Aytch" fills
in the yawning gaps of how war is really fought and experienced
that you will never find in any general's memoirs. This book is
essential for a full understanding of the Civil War, and it is a
pleasure and a joy to read. I highly recommend it.
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