..was taken by Grant's troops in early 1862 and held for the remainder of the war. One of Columbia's citizens was Sam Watkins, who survived all the major actions in the West other than Vicksburg. He wrote a memoir - "Company H, a Sideshow of the Big Show". I have a hazy plan to convert this book into a screenplay called "White Trash".

"In this army, a man with one hole in his trouser seat is a Colonel, one with two holes a Captain, one with three a Lieutenant, and one with the seat entirely out, a private soldier."

"I always shot at privates, as they were the ones who did the shooting and killing. I always regarded officers are harmless personages."

-Sam Watkins