Local History: Pvt. Sam Watkins’s brutally honest Civil War account
Sam Watkins was a young Confederate private from Tennessee whose vivid memoir of serving in the 1st Tennessee Regiment gives one of the best firsthand accounts of what it was like to fight at…
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