Watkins, who served in the 1st Tennessee, lived out his days near Columbia, Tenn., dying in 1901. It is the living, marching, fighting, shooting soldier that has the hardships of war to carry." Dying on the field of battle and glory is about the easiest duty a soldier has to undergo. The emotions of patriotism and pleasure hardly counterbalance the toil and suffering that he has to undergo in order to enjoy his patriotism and pleasure. It is always, at best, one of privations and hardships. "A soldier's life is not a pleasant one.I always looked upon officers as harmless personages." It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill or wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south.
"America has no north, no south, no east, no west.
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