![]() Although there have been other versions of Company Aytch published, this is the first with new material and revisions by Sam Watkins himself. Now more than one hundred years later, Watkins’s great-granddaughter Ruth Hill Fulton McAllister is fulfilling Watkins’s dream. Intending to republish after his first edition sold out, Watkins edited and revised Company Aytch but died before accomplishing his goal. Watkins’s firsthand account of life as a Confederate soldier eloquently captured the realities of war, the humor and pathos of soldiering, and the tragic, historic events in which he participated. ![]() ![]() COMPANY AYTCH has reigned as one of the most memorable and honest depictions of the American Civil War since its original publication in 1882. ![]()
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