Sam Watkins was only 21 when his home state of Tennessee seceded from the Union in the spring of 1861. #History #AmericanCivilWar #BattleOfShiloh #CompanyAytch #Memoir #SamWatkins #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2783-en/
A Confederate Soldier's Tale: Sam Watkins' Civil War Experiences from 1861-63

Sam Watkins was only 21 when his home state of Tennessee seceded from the Union in the spring of 1861. Swept away by the patriotic fervor and thirst for adventure that gripped an entire generation of...

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Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) was the commander of the Confederate western armies in the early months of the American Civil War (1861-1865). #History #AmericanCivilWar #BattleOfShiloh #JeffersonDavis #UtahWar #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24585-en/
Albert Sidney Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) was the commander of the Confederate western armies in the early months of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Over the course of his 34-year military career, Johnston...

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#OnThisDay, April 7, 1862, Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh, in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War (depicted in How the West Was Won, 1962)

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