Co. «Aytch», The First Tennessee Regiment or a Side Show to the Big Show: The Complete Illustrated Edition

259 Pages·2015·88.76 MB·English

by  Sam Watkins, James McPherson

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“Quaeque ipse miserima vidi,
Et quorum pars magna fui.”
(cid:28)
TO THE MEMORY OF
MY DEAD COMRADES OF THE MAURY GRAYS,
AND THE FIRST TENNESSEE REGIMENT,
WHO DIED IN DEFENSE OF SOUTHERN HOMES AND LIBERTIES:
ALSO TO MY LIVING COMRADES,
NEARLY ALL OF WHOM SHED THEIR BLOOD
IN DEFENSE OF THE SAME CAUSE,
THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
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CONTENTS Chapter III CorInth .........................42
45 rOWlAnd shOT TO deATh
46 killing A yAnkee shArpshOOTer
47 COlOnel field
Chapter I retrospeCtIve ...............8 48 CApTAin JOe p. lee
8 We Are One And Undivided 49 COrinTh fOrsAken
10 The BlOOdy ChAsm Chapter Iv tupelo ............................50
11 eighTeen hUndred And sixTy-One
51 The COUrT mArTiAl AT TUpelO
14 CAmp CheAThAm
52 rAiding On rOAsTingeArs
16 On The rOAd
Chapter v KentuCKy .......................53
17 sTAUnTOn
53 We gO inTO kenTUCky
17 WArm springs, virginiA
55 The BATTle Of perryville
21 CheAT mOUnTAin
61 The reTreAT OUT Of kenTUCky
22 seWell mOUnAin
64 knOxville
24 rOmney
65 Ah, “sneAk”
26 sTAnding piCkeT On The pOTOmAC
66 i Jine The CAvAlry
28 sChWArTz And pfifer
28 The COUrT-mArTiAl Chapter vI Murfreesboro ..........67
30 “The deATh WATCh” 68 BATTle Of mUrfreesBOrO
31 virginiA, fAreWell 75 rOBBing A deAd yAnkee
Chapter II shIloh ..............................32
Atlanta, Georgia, in October 1864, before it was
burned down by General Sherman.
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Chapter vII shelbyvIlle ..............76 Chapter IX ChICKaMauga ............100
76 A fOOT rACe 100 BATTle Of ChiCkAmAUgA
77 eATing mUssels 106 AfTer The BATTle
78 “pOOr” Berry mOrgAn 107 A nighT AmOng The deAd
79 WrighT shOT TO deATh WiTh mUskeTry
Chapter X MIssIonary rIdge .....109
80 dAve sUBleTT prOmOTed
111 sergeAnT TUCker And generAl Wilder
83 dOWn dUCk river in A CAnOe
111 mOCCAsin pOinT
83 “shenerAl OWleydOUsky”
113 BATTle Of missiOnAry ridge
Chapter vIII Chattanooga ..........85 116 gOOd-Bye, TOm WeBB
85 BACk TO ChATTAnOOgA 117 The reAr gUArd
85 Am visiTed By my fATher 118 ChiCkAmAUgA sTATiOn
87 OUT “A lArking” 119 The BATTle Of CAT Creek
88 hAnging TWO spies 122 ringgOld gAp
88 eATing rATs
Chapter XI dalton ..........................124
89 sWimming The Tennessee WiTh rOAsTingeArs
124 generAl JOseph e. JOhnsTOn
90 Am deTAiled TO gO fOrAging
127 COmmissAries
91 pleAse pAss The BUTTer
127 dAlTOn
93 We evACUATe ChATTAnOOgA
129 shOOTing A deserTer
95 The BUll Of The WOOds
129 Ten men killed AT The mOUrners’ BenCh
97 presenTmenT, Or The Wing Of The Angel
130 dr. C. T. QUinTArd
Of deATh
130 y’s yOU gOT my hOg?
132 TArgeT shOOTing
133 UnCle zACk And AUnT dAphne
134 red TApe
136 i geT A fUrlOUgh
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Chapter XII Chapter XIII atlanta ....................174
hundred days battle ...................138 174 hOOd sTrikes
138 rOCky fACe ridge 175 killing A yAnkee sCOUT
140 “fAlling BACk” 176 An Old CiTizen
141 BATTle Of resACCA 177 my friends
147 AdAirsville—OCTAgOn hOUse—The firsT 178 A BOdy WiThOUT limBs—An Army WITHOUT
Tennessee AlWAys OCCUpies TighT plACes CAvAlry
148 kennesAW line 179 BATTle Of JUly 22nd, 1864
148 Am deTAiled TO gO inTO The enemy’s lines 182 The ATTACk
153 pine mOUnTAin—deATh Of generAl leOnidAs pOlk 187 Am prOmOTed
155 gOlgAThA ChUrCh —generAl lUCiUs e. pOlk 188 28Th Of JUly AT ATlAnTA
WOUnded 188 i visiT mOnTgOmery
156 “deAd Angle” 189 The hOspiTAl
165 BATTle Of neW hOpe ChUrCh 191 The CApiTOl
166 BATTle Of dAllAs—BreCkinridge ChArges 192 Am ArresTed
The heighTs 193 ThOse girls
167 BATTle Of ziOn ChUrCh, JUly 4Th, 1864 193 The TAlismAn
168 kingsTOn 194 The BrAve CApTAin
168 CAssville 195 hOW i geT BACk TO ATlAnTA
170 On The BAnks Of The ChATTAhOOChee 196 deATh Of TOm TUCk’s rOOsTer
171 remOvAl Of generAl JOseph e. JOhnsTOn 198 Old JOe BrOWn’s peTs
173 generAl hOOd TAkes COmmAnd 200 We gO AfTer sTOnemAn
202 “BellUm leThAle”
204 The sCOUT And deATh Of A yAnkee lieUTenAnT
204 ATlAnTA fOrsAken
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Chapter XIv Jonesboro ...............208 Chapter XvI
208 BATTle Of JOnesBOrO battles In tennessee ...................230
210 deATh Of lieUTenAnT JOhn WhiTTAker 230 COlUmBiA
213 Then COmes The fArCe 231 A fiAsCO
215 pAlmeTTO 232 frAnklin
216 Jeff dAvis mAkes A speeCh 238 nAshville
217 ArmisTiCe in nAme Only
Chapter XvII the surrender ......244
218 A sCOUT
244 The lAsT ACT Of The drAmA
219 “WhAT is This reBel dOing here?”
248 AdieU
223 “lOOk OUT, BOys”
223 Am CApTUred 252 BiBliOgrAphy
252 COnTriBUTOrs
Chapter Xv
253 imAge CrediTs
advanCe Into tennessee ............225
253 index
225 generAl hOOd mAkes A flAnk mOvemenT
226 We CApTUre dAlTOn
227 A mAn in The Well
227 TUsCUmBiA
228 en rOUTe fOr COlUmBiA The outer line of the Federal defenses in Nashville,
Tennessee, December 1864.
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CHAPTER I
RETROSPECTIVE
We are one Then after a while whole heaps of people began to say
that they thought that there was a north and a south;
AND undIvIded
and after a while hundreds and thousands and millions
About twenty years ago, I think it was—I won’t be said that there was a south. But they were the persons
certain, though—a man whose name, if I remember who lived in the direction that the water courses run.
correctly, was Wm. L. Yancy—I write only from Now, the people who lived where the water courses
memory, and this was a long time ago—took a strange started from came down to see about it, and they said,
and peculiar notion that the sun rose in the east and set “Gents, you are very much mistaken. We came over in
in the west, and that the compass pointed north and the Mayfl ower, and we used to burn witches for saying
south. Now, everybody knew at the time that it was that the sun rose in the east and set in the west, because
but the idiosyncrasy of an unbalanced mind, and that the sun neither rises nor sets, the earth simply turns on its
the United States of America had no north, no south, axis, and we know, because we are Pure(i)tans.”
no east, no west. Well, he began to preach the strange The spokesman of the party was named (I think I
doctrine of there being such a thing. He began to have remember his name because it always gave me the blues
followers. As you know, it matters not how absurd, when I heard it) Horrors Greeley; and another person by
ridiculous and preposterous doctrines may be preached, the name of Charles Sumner, said there ain’t any north
there will be some or south, east or west,
followers. Well, one and you shan’t say so,
man by the name of either. Now, the other
(I think it was) Rhett, people who lived in
said it out loud. He the direction that the
was told to “s-h- water courses run, just
e-e.” Then another raised their bristles and
fellow by the name continued saying that
(I remember this one there is a north and
because it sounded like there is a south. When
a graveyard) Toombs those at the head of the
said so, and he was water courses come out
told to “sh-sh-ee-ee.” furiously mad, to coerce
retrospective
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