Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Descendant Fulfills Soldier's Wish - "Co. Aytch" Revised is Published

By LEON ALLIGOOD

Staff Writer

Ruth Hill Fulton McAllister never met her great-grandfather, Sam R. Watkins.

But more than 100 years after his death, the Columbia woman has completed her ancestor's life work.

McAllister is the editor of a new version of Co. Aytch, the frank War memoir that is considered a classic in the genre and was quoted several times in Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War.

Full story:

http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071226/NEWS01/712260419/1006/MTCN0301