title: Co. Aytch : The Classic Memoir of the Civil War By a Confederate Soldier
author: Sam R. Watkins
description: Twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia Tennessee joined the Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment. He recounts his experiences of the civil war, its commanders, its Yankee enemies and ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865.
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  # The Southern Soldier Boy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## A THOUSAND SHOTS FOR THE CONFEDERACY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### By
  
  
  
  
  
  ## JAMES CARSON ELLIOTT,
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Company F, 56 Regiment N. C. T., C. S. A., 1861-’65,  
  
  
  SHELBY, N. C.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Historical Incidents, Reminiscences and Personal Experiences, Covering  
  
  
  the nine months siege of Petersburg and both Prison Pens,  
  
  
  etc., etc. Plain facts more interesting than Fiction,  
  
  
  all from the standpoint of a Private Soldier
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Edwards & Broughton Printing Company,  
  
  
  Raleigh, N. C.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Copyright, 1907,  
  
  
  by  
  
  
  James C. Elliott.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## PREFACE.
  
  
  
  
  
  A readable book should instruct, entertain and amuse. The author, outside of
  the historical interest of this little book, has aimed to cover a broad-enough
  field for all class