Watkins is today one of the most well-known common soldiers in Civil War history.Despite his low rank, Watkins has found immortality through his 1882 memoir Company Aytch.īorn in Maury County, Tennessee, south of Nashville in 1840, Watkins rushed to enlist in the army when Tennessee left the union in 1861.His unit had served in the mountains of Western Virginia during the brutal winter of 1861-62, and received its baptism of fire at Shiloh that April.Two of the First's sternest tests had come in late 1862 at Perryville, Kentucky in October and at Murfreesboro, Tennessee – only miles from Sam's home – on the last day of the year.Watkins and the First Tennessee fought on both days at Chickamauga, and his account of the chaos in the woods along Brotherton Road on September 19th stands as one of the best accounts of the battle by any participant. A Private in Company H, First Tennessee Infantry, Sam R.
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