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Under Fire: “A Scene of Consternation and Confusion” according to Sam Watkins
On July 21, 1861, Sam Watkins of “Co. Aytch” in the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment sat on a train “a hundred miles” from the fight along Bull Run Creek near Manassas. In fact, the locomotive pulled his regiment into Manassas … Continue reading
The Dead Angle
“The Dead Angle,” from Sam Watkins’ Co. Aytch, Chapter XII: The First and Twenty-seventh Tennessee Regiments will ever remember the battle of “Dead Angle,” which was fought June 27th, on the Kennesaw line, near Marietta, Georgia. It was one of … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Primary Sources, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Tennessee, 27th Tennessee, Co. Aytch, Dead Angle, Kennesaw Line, Sam Watkins
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The Kennesaw Line: Hell Breaks Loose in Georgia
The focus of General Thomas’s attack was the angle in the Confederate line manned by troops of Gen. Frank Cheatham’s Tennessee Division. Thomas intended to break the line and push on toward Marietta—a move that could rip Johnston’s army in … Continue reading
