![]() ![]() ![]() He was shot at and hit a few times, (but survived) was captured a few times, ( but escaped) and seemed to be uncommonly lucky, especially as he was in so many major battles. He marched and starved and froze and roasted, played tricks on fellow soldiers to pass the time, and complained about the officers. He fought at Chicamauga and Lookout Mountain and Atlanta and Nashville and Franklin, and numerous skirmishes all along. His first person experience of the life of a soldier is peppered with humor and common sense and philosophy. Sam Watkins was a private who served with the First Tennessee regiment for the entire 4 years of the war. This book is described as one of the best memoirs from the Civil War ever written. ![]() I knew it would make a great stocking stuffer for my husband at Christmas, but of course I would read it myself before that. I found it in a used book sale a couple of months ago and snatched it up. I have wanted to read this book since Sam Watkins was so heavily quoted in Ken Burns Civil War documentary. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages". It was they that did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill or wound a private why, my chances were so much the better. ![]()
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