5/26/2023 0 Comments Company aytch book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Apparently the author has a superior guardian angel because he is in the thick of it from start to finish. This is an interesting tour through the Western Theater of the War Between the States from the view of a 1st Tennesse infantryman. The Watkins book is a very interesting historical artifact, but if you want a single example of a Confederate war memoir, your time is better spent with Benson. The result, for Watkins, is a deficit of detail and a blending of events. Additionally, Benson has the advantage that he kept some form of a diary during the experience, which Watkins seems to base his recollections exclusively upon memory. A good first-had recounting of the Confederate experience, but in my opinion, Barry Benson's Civil War Book does a much better job and is much more engaging (also, without the constant pace killers of disclaiming that he is just a private soldier and that his view is not representative). If you excised every passage when Watkins provides his disclaimer that he is "just a private soldier" and that he is not giving a full history of any particular event, but rather his memories of his personal experience, the book would be a quarter its actual length. ![]()
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