TN Sam Watkins Grave

[JD Mayo]

Emerging Civil War's Chris Mackowski pays a graveside visit to Sam Watkins of Co. Aytch.

 

[MackCW]

I do like their channel, his video on Longstreet's wounding was excellent.

 

[weasel]

He "enrolled" in company H? According to the sign that he films here Watkins enlisted in the 3rd Tennessee and then was transferred to Company H of the 1st Tennessee.

 

[bdtex]

Some members of Hood's Texas Brigade Association Re-activated visited there on June 7,2017 with @EricAJacobson and @samhood as our guides.

 

[Vicksburger]

But the half of brave Hood's body molders here.
The rest was lost in honor's bold career.
Though fame and limbs he scattered all around;
Yet still though mangled was with glory crowned.
For ever ready with his blood to part,
War left him nothing whole, except his heart.

----Sam Watkins

 

[bdtex]

Samuel Rush “Sam” Watkins (1839-1901) - Find a...

Author, Military Figure, Historian. He served as a Private in Company H, 1st Tennessee Infantry, Confederate States of America, during the American Civil War, fighting in most of the large battles of the Western Theater. He was famous as the author of Company Aytch, his memoirs, published in...

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[bdtex]

His brother served in the 6th Tennessee Cavalry and is buried in the same cemetery.

PVT David Frierson Watkins (1844-1929) - Find a...

WATKINS, David Frierson, 1844 - 1929. (Son Frederick Henry & Margaret A.F. Stephenson; Co. F, 1st Tenn Cav., C.S.A.; MCTC). Buried ZION PRESYBERTIAN CHURCH CEMETERY. D.F. FRIERSON WATKINS, 6th (Wheeler's) Tennessee Calvary, Co. F, Confederate side, rank in Pvt. rank out Pvt. (NARA)* I...

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[JD Mayo]

They should make a movie about him. He was pretty famous for his unit etc. He was on PBS Ken Burns series.

 

[gjpratt]

I drove to Mt. Pleasant from my hometown of Nashville when I was still in my teens in 1969 or 70 and found the church graveyard and Sam's grave on my own.

 

[dlavin]

Some members of Hood's Texas Brigade Association Re-activated visited there on June 7,2017 with @EricAJacobson and @samhood as our guides.

so my first thought was, where is bdtex. And then I realized you took the pictures. It's been a longggg week.

 

[redbob]

He "enrolled" in company H? According to the sign that he films here Watkins enlisted in the 3rd Tennessee and then was transferred to Company H of the 1st Tennessee.

By the end of the War, the 1st Tennessee had been consolidated with the 27th Tennessee; a move that neither group was happy with.