DOB:  ? DOD:  ? Comments: “Company Aytch” by Samuel R. Watkins, Chapter 8, “Am Visited by my Father” “Says I, ‘Colonel Field, I desire to introduce you to my father, and as rations are a little short in my mess, I thought you might have a little better, and could give him a good dinner.’ ‘Yes,’ says Colonel Field, ‘I am glad to make the acquaintance of your father, and will be glad to divide my rations with him. Also, I would like you to stay and take dinner with me,’ which I assure you, O kind reader, I gladly accepted. About this time a young African, Whit, came in with a frying-pan of parched corn and dumped it on an old oil cloth, and said, ‘Master, dinner is ready.’ That was all he had. He was living like ourselves--on parched corn.” In an obituary to Colonel Feild in the Confederate Veteran Magazine there are two references to Col. Feild’s servant, but he is not mentioned by name. [After the attack on Missionary Ridge was originally repulsed] “He [Colonel Feild] states that ‘late in the evening,’ expecting to bivouac on the ground, he sent his servant to the rear to bring his blankets, and later through his servant he learned Grant’s army was in his rear and in possession of his ambulance.” Second mention of Feild’s servant in the obituary: “After recovery from his last wound, accompanied by his faithful servant, Colonel Feild, returning home via Baltimore, took passage on a boat from Cincinnati to Louisville, his destination being Nashville, Tenn.” Assuming this is the same body servant, we have at least three mentions of him.  No record of a Whit Feild (or any variation of this name) shows up in any census or genealogical record so far.  It is possible that his first name was not Whit or Feild is not his last name, and potentially he belonged to someone else but was serving Col. Feild during the war.  Unfortunately, Sam Watkins’ story and an unnamed servant to Col. Feild are the only references to him.