Co Aytch Author:Sam Watkins Early in May 1861 twenty-one year old Sam Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee joined the Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment. He fought in all of its major battles from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a "house full of young rebels clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows" he wrote this remarkable account of Co. Aytch (... more »H), its common foot soldiers, its commanders, its Yankee enemies, its victories and defeats, and its ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865.« less