Sam R. Watkins
Born
in Columbia, Tennessee, The United States
June 26, 1839
Died
July 20, 1901
Genre
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“But we soon found out that the glory of war was at home among the ladies and not upon the field of blood and carnage of death, where our comrades were mutilated and torn by shot and shell.”
― Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
― Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
“While at Colonel Niel's marquee I saw a detail of soldiers bring out a man by the name of Rowland, whom they were going to shoot to death with musketry, by order of a court-martial, for desertion. He was being hauled to the place of execution in a wagon, sitting on an old gun box, which was to be his coffin. When they got to the grave, which had been dug the day before, the water had risen in it, and a soldier was baling it out. Rowland spoke up and said, 'Please hand me a drink of that water, as I want to drink out of my own grave so the boys will talk about it when I am dead, and remember Rowland.”
― Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
― Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
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