Sam Watkins enlisted in the First Tennessee in 1861 and was one of a handful of his company still standing at the end. He tells of Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta and Franklin from the ranks, with hunger, lice, executions and absurd comedy side by side, and with a common soldier’s scorn for generals.
Among the most quoted soldiers’ memoirs of the Civil War, featured in Ken Burns’s documentary. Download the free EPUB.