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Best Memoirs Published in the 1890s
(30 Books)
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Turned Inside Out: Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac
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Frank Wilkeson
4.11 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade
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John O. Casler
4.20 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Early Times In Texas
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John Crittenden Duval
4.03 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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Eugene Field
3.54 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Mrs. J.E. De Camp Sweet's Narrative of Her Captivity in the Sioux Outbreak of 1862
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Jannette E. De Camp Sweet
3.91 avg rating — 86 ratings
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American Notes
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Rudyard Kipling
3.38 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors
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Chester D. Berry
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I Married a Soldier: Or Old Days in the Old Army
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Lydia Spencer Lane
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life
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Frank T. Bullen
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My Three Years in Manipur, and Escape From the Recent Mutiny
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Ethel St. Clair Grimwood
3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule
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Almira Stillwell Cole
3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Lady's Diary Before and During the Indian Mutiny [Illustrated Edition]
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Matilda Hannah Ouvry
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Recollections of the Rebel Invasion and One Woman's Experience During the Battle of Gettysburg
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Fannie J. Buehler
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840
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William Cooper Howells
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Story of Nancy McClure, Captivity Among the Sioux
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Nancy McClure Huggan
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The Drummer Boy from Maine: With Company H, 8th Maine Volunteers in the American Civil War
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George T. Ulmer
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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When I Was Your Age
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Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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My Year in a Log Cabin (1893)
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William Dean Howells
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Gossip in a Library
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Edmund Gosse
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The Cattle Queen of Montana
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Elizabeth May Smith Collins
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Sketches in The House
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Thomas Power O'Connor
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Collections and Recollections
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George W.E. Russell
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My Life
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Thomas Sidney Cooper
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My Recollections of Ohio
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Silas Sadler Packard
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Southern Soldier Stories
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George Cary Eggleston
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Twenty-Seven Years on the Texas Frontier: Fifty Years in Texas
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William Banta
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My Long Life: An Autobiographic Sketch
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Mary Cowden Clarke
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Incidents In India And Memories Of The Mutiny: With Some Records Of Alexander's Horse And The 1st Bengal Cavalry
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F W Pitt
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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of a Soldier of Three Wars
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James D. Elderkin
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A Retrospect of Eight Decades
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Edward Lyon Berthon
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