Samuel R. Watkins 
Co. Aytch: Maury Grays First Tennessee Regiment (Civil War Memoir) [EPUB ebook] 

In 1881, with a ‘house full of young ‘rebels’ clustering about my elbows, ‘ Watkins began to chronicle his experiences in the First Tennessee Regiment. ‘Co. Aytch’ is considered to be one of the greatest memoirs ever written by a soldier of the field. The charming prose captures the experience of the common private soldier, from the hardships of camp life to the horrors of battle, the camaraderie of a unit to the loss of a brother, the pride in one’s state to the devastation of defeat.