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Company Aytch: Or,a Side Show of the Big... by Watkins, Sam Paperback / softback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0452281245
- EAN
- 9780452281240
- Date of Publication
- 1999-11-25
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Company Aytch: Or,a Side Show of the Big Show And Other Sketches
- Artist
- Watkins, Sam
- Brand
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0452281245
ISBN-13
9780452281240
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1631248
Product Key Features
Book Title
Company Aytch : a Classic Memoir of the Civil War
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Personal Memoirs, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Modern / General, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-014337
Reviews
"This lively memoir is part of an ilk within the genre that contends with the harsh barbarism of combat using wry humor. Surviving impossible situations and seemingly countless battles, Confederate soldier Watkins manages not only to capture clearly a soldier's experience but also inadvertently to write a solid history of the war itself."-- Benjamin Brudner, Library Journal Reviews, Praise for Company Aytch "A memoir of staggering significance, wit, and beauty."--Ken Burns "This lively memoir is part of an ilk within the genre that contends with the harsh barbarism of combat using wry humor. Surviving impossible situations and seemingly countless battles, Confederate soldier Watkins manages not only to capture clearly a soldier's experience but also inadvertently to write a solid history of the war itself."-- Library Journal
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
973.7/468
Grade To
UP
Table Of Content
Introduction Textual Note Acknowledgments "CO. AYTCH" Other Sketches: The "Fighting" Forty-eighth Tennessee Regiment Reminiscences of Hood's Tennessee Campaign Snow Battle at Dalton-Little Jimmie White Battle Near Adairsville A Gambler at Cards in Dalton Dead Angle, on the Kennesaw Line Chronology A Concise History of the First Tennessee Infantry Regiment Glossary Topical Index Geographic Index Biographical Directory and Index
Synopsis
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 aGeorgia 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
E579.5 1st.W35 1999
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