Co. Aytch
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Co. Aytch
| Full title | Co. Aytch: A Side Show of the Big Show |
|---|---|
| Author | Sam R. Watkins |
| Published | 1882 |
| Pages | 236 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Sam Watkins’s memoir of the First Tennessee Regiment, written twenty years after the war — Shiloh, Chickamauga, Franklin — from the ranks rather than the staff tent. A primary source that reads like a book, and the one most often used to show what the Civil War looked like at eye level. |
Where I heard about it
- A crowd-sourced X thread — in the replies to @typesfast’s question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (the thread, June 2025); the full list is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Civil War — the subject.
What links here
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