"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side Show of the Big Show

A first-person regimental memoir recounts the daily life, humor, and hardships of soldiers during prolonged military campaigns, blending vivid battlefield narratives with camp anecdotes. The narrator describes marches, skirmishes and major engagements, personal losses, court-martials, foraging, prisoners, and the strain of command and supply. Interwoven are portraits of comrades, sarcastic and affectionate reflections on officers and civilians, and observations on courage, fear, and endurance that culminate in the final surrender and the author's farewell to comrades and the war.