Memoirs
128 books
Memoirs
425
Joseph Benjamin Polley - Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie
Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and experiences, the impressions and feelings, of a soldier whose only personal...
8 hours 37 minutes
True Crime
458
Fanny Kelly - Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
«Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon events occurring in my captivity» «I was a member of a small company of...
5 hours 17 minutes
War & Military
497
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - My Hunt After 'The Captain'
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine, 1862. Holmes, Sr. (1809 -1894) was an...
2 hours 11 minutes
Memoirs
481
Willard Glazier - Three Years in the Federal Cavalry
Captain Glazier narrates his experiences as a cavalryman in the Federal Army during the Civil War, from his enlistment in New York State to his capture at the battle of Brandy Station. (Summary by Jonathan Limebrook)
10 hours 7 minutes
Memoirs
488
Charles Ball - Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave
This is the story of Charles Ball, an American slave who was born in 1780 and remained a slave for fifty years thereafter. Ball told his story to a lawyer who turned it into this written work. (Summary by Tom Causby)
10 hours 47 minutes
Memoirs
451
Phoebe Yates Pember - Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron
Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseeing a dietary kitchen serving meals to 300 or more wounded soldiers daily....
4 hours 18 minutes
War & Military
493
Lord Thomas Cochrane - Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the development of naval fiction as a genre. Marryat sailed with Cochrane, while...
11 hours 19 minutes
War & Military
607
Francis Key Howard - Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national...
3 hours 21 minutes
