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Company Aytch
Samuel R. Watkins
其他書名
A Classic Memoir of the Civil War
出版
Penguin Publishing Group
, 1999-11
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Military
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
History / Military / United States
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN
0452281245
9780452281240
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TugWAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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,
Company Aytch
stands out for its uniquely personal view of the events as related by a most engaging writer—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 a 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 it—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.