{"product_id":"9780452281240-company-aytch","title":"Company Aytch","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOr,a Side Show of the Big Show And Other Sketches\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTold 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the plethora of books about the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eCompany Aytch \u003c\/i\u003estands 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns humorous and harrowing, fervent and philosophical, \u003ci\u003eCompany Aytch\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003eCompany Aytch\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56592478896502,"sku":"9780452281240","price":11.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32224748.jpg?v=1762260326","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780452281240-company-aytch","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}