Military life
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The Commanders of the Civil War
What the soldier thinks. A digest of War department studies on the attitudes of American troops. Periodical publication of the Research branch, Information and education division, War department. December, 1942-September, 1945.
Make Your Bed
Five years a cavalryman, or, Sketches of regular army life on the Texas frontier, 1866-1871
The end of an era
Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia
That Military House
Redcoat
Angel walk
Five Years, Four Fronts
Steel helmet and mortarboard
Mrs. Tim Flies Home
How to be a revolutionary war soldier
Destruction and reconstruction
The good soldiers
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion
The colonels
Reminiscences of the Civil War
A Rebel's Recollections
Chicken soup for the military wife's soul
Recollections of a Rebel reefer
The British Army in the West Indies
No man's war
George Washington and the Revolutionary War
The Civil War letters of Colonel Charles F. Johnson, invalid corps
Ab-sa-ra-ka
The illustrated Confederate reader
The Company they Keep
Underdogs
A life apart
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