About twenty years ago, I think it was--I won't be certain, though-- a man whose name, if I remember correctly, was Wm. L. Yancy--I write only from memory, and this was a long time ago--took a strange and peculiar notion that the sun rose in the east and set in the west, and that the compass pointed north and south. Now, everybody knew at the time that it was but the idiosyncrasy of an unbalanced mind, and that the United States of America had no north, no south, no east, no west.
Memoirs, written by a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War Samuel Rush Watkins. The volume was originally published in 1882. “Co Aytch” is a fascinating recollection of the author’s experience as a private in the confederate army, a first-hand account of the horrors of warfare and of life in the ranks of the 1st Tennessee Regiment through the eyes of a private Southern soldier.