![]() I did find it odd that he sometimes quotes speeches seemingly word for word with this faulty memory of his.Ĭertainly, I don’t expect everything to be accurate. Sometimes he even gets things completely off base, such as a name, which is corrected in a footnote. As well, there are many things he simply never knew to begin with, so he refers the reader to the history books. ![]() ![]() Watkins often, perhaps even too often, reminds the reader that he is writing twenty years after his time in the army, so his memory fails him. Unfortunately, for some reason I can’t explain, only some of Watkins’ recollections evoke emotion from me. The set up of the book, with various disconnected pieces of memory in each chapter, almost reminds me of Tim O’Brien’s fictional novel The Things They Carried. Watkins has an easily understandable writing style and a good sense of humor. ![]() This account is from the common soldier, who knew little of the larger picture, yet did the majority of the brute fighting. Most of what we learn of the Civil War is from the perspective of generals. Watkins, a private soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil War, written twenty years after the war ended. ![]()
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