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• The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2018), by Guy St-Denis (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Life of Stonewall Jackson, by John Esten Cooke (page images at MOA)
• War Memoirs: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States (Civil War centennial series; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c1960), by Jubal Anderson Early, ed. by Frank E. Vandiver, contrib. by R. H. Early (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee, by Robert E. Lee (Gutenberg text)
• Reminiscences of the Civil War, by John Brown Gordon (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1912), by Jubal Anderson Early, ed. by R. H. Early
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Funeral Services at the Burial of the Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D. Together with the Sermon, by Stephen Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson, by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson (Louisville, KY: Prentice Press, Courier-Journal Job Print. Co., c1895), by Mary Anna Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

• General Foch, the Man of the Hour (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1918), by R. M. Johnston (page images here at Penn)
• Le Général Compans (1769-1845), d'Après ses Notes de Campagnes et sa Correspondance de 1812 à 1813 (in French; Paris: Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1912), by Maurice Ternaux-Compans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoires Pour Servir a l'Histoire de la Revolution de Saint-Domingue (2 volumes in French; Paris: Pillet Ainé, 1819), by Pamphile Lacroix
  • Book 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot, Late Lieutenant-General in the French Army (2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Arthur John Butler
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Oliver C. Colt (Gutenberg text)

• The Story of General Gordon, by Jeanie Lang (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborough (Augustan Reprint Society publication #168; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1974), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Paula R. Backscheider (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. (2 volumes in one, covering all of Smith's life; London: John Murray, 1903), by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith, contrib. by Juana María de los Delores de León Smith (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith: 1787-1819, by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith (HTML in New Zealand)
• Charles George Gordon: A Sketch (London: Macmillan, 1885), by Reginald H. Barnes and Charles E. Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Major-General Sir John Ardagh (London: J. Murray, 1909), by Susan Malmesbury, illust. by John Charles Ardagh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oliver Cromwell (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1901), by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Oliver Cromwell (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1909), by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, The Negro Patriot of Hayti (London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co, 1853), by J. R. Beard (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography (Boston: J. Redpath, 1863), by J. R. Beard
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mémoires du Général Toussaint-L'Ouverture (in French; Paris: Pagnerre, 1853), by Toussaint Louverture, ed. by Joseph Saint-Rémy, contrib. by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Gallica
• Reflections on the Life and Times of Toussaint L'Overture, the Negro Haytien, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Ruler under the Dominion of France, and Author of The Independence of Hayti (Columbia, SC: Charles A. Calvo, Jr., 1886), by D. Augustus Straker (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Silent Soldier: The Man Behind the Afghan Jehad (1991), by Mohammad Yousaf (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at archive.org)

• Montrose: A History (1928), by John Buchan (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Marquis of Montrose (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1913), by John Buchan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Great Captain: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1962), by Mary Purcell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff, 1775-2013 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2013), by William Gardner Bell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at army.mil
• Kenneth N. Walker: Airpower's Untempered Crusader (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1997), by Martha Byrd (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2001), by Phillip S. Meilinger
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• They Served Here: Thirty-Three Maxwell Men (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by Jeffrey C. Benton (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Dwight David Eisenhower: The Centennial (1990), by United States Army (illustrated HTML at US Army CMH)
• The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1988), by John E. Ferling (PDF at Tennessee)
• Eisenhower's Legacy: The Report of the Legacy Committee on Dwight David Eisenhower's Military Achievements, Presidential Accomplishments, and Lifetime of Public Service (2003), by Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Committee (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by Charles Griffith (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1976), by Allan S. Everest (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)
• The Life of General Francis Marion, by M. L. Weems (Gutenberg text)
• Stories About General Warren, In Relation to the Fifth of March Massacre, and the Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston: J. Loring, 1835), by Rebecca Warren Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The True George Washington (10th edition, without illustrations; 1896), by Paul Leicester Ford (Gutenberg text)
• From Manassas to Appomatox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1960), by James Longstreet, ed. by James I. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1876), by Frederick Whittaker (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution, ed. by William Gilmore Simms (page images at MOA)
• Some Memories of a Soldier (New York and London: The Century Co., c1928), by Hugh Lenox Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Campaigning With Grant, by Horace Porter (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1896), by James Longstreet
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (second edition, revised; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1903), by James Longstreet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson, by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson (Louisville, KY: Prentice Press, Courier-Journal Job Print. Co., c1895), by Mary Anna Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Story (Washington: The author, 1918), by Anson Mills, ed. by C. H. Claudy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On the Border With Crook (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), by John Gregory Bourke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, by Philip Henry Sheridan (Gutenberg text)
• Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles (Chicago: Werner, 1896), by Nelson Appleton Miles (page images at Wisconsin)

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