James Watson\u27s Civil War Camp Reminiscences - Accession 452 - M186 (227)

James Adams Watson (1840-1905) served as 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 12th South Carolina Volunteers in the Confederate State Army during the American Civil War. Mr. Watson was a York, SC native and his father Rev. Samuel Lytle Watson was pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church in York County, SC. The James Watson Reminiscence consists of the Civil War “Camp Reminiscences” (1861-1865) by James Adams Watson which were compiled by Eleanor Guy Bankhead, Watson’s granddaughter in 1965.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1575/thumbnail.jp