Sam R. Watkins

SAM R. WATKINS was a Confederate soldier who served through the entirety of the Civil War and is the author of Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show, first serialized in the Columbia, Tennessee Herald and published in book form in 1882.

Watkins received his education at Jackson College in Columbia, Tennessee. He enlisted in May 1861 in the First Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Company H, participating in major engagements including Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Franklin. Of the 120 men who enlisted in his company, he was one of only seven still alive at the war’s end. He was also featured and quoted in Ken Burns' documentary The Civil War.

Sam R. Watkins’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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