Many of you have read or are familiar with Sam Watkins’s memoir, Co. Aytch: Maury Grays: Or, A Side Show of the Big Show. It is one of the most popular Confederate memoirs written by a common soldier. The book has gone through numerous printings and Watkins was featured prominently in Ken Burns’s Civil War documentary.
But as historian Patrick A. Lewis r…
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