War Times Journal Archives

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Description: Contains the full text military memoirs, headquarters dispatches, correspondence, eyewitness accounts, and photo galeries. The correspondence is not of personal writings, but those between officers and command groups.

Dispatches

• Napoleon Bonaparte, 1796 - 1815: Orders, dispatches and reports from Napoleon's army headquarters during the Italian, Egyptian, Austerlitz, Wagram and Waterloo campaigns.
• Marshal Louis Davout, 1806: Orders and reports from French Marshal Davout's famous Auerstadt campaign.
• Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1797 - 1805: Dispatches, letters of instruction and commentary written by Horatio Nelson during his most famous naval campaigns.
• The Duke of Wellington, 1808 - 1815: Dispatches, orders and correspondence from the headquarters of Arthur Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns.
• American Civil War Navies, 1862: Telegrams and reports relating to the great naval battle fought at Hampton Road between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia.

• The Redoutable at Trafalgar by Captain Etienne Lucas, Captain of the 74-gun Ship of the Line Redoutable.
• The Battle of the Skagerrak by Commander Georg von Hase, First Gunnery Officer of the German Battlecruiser Derfflinger.
• The Battle of Borodino by Baron Lejeune, a French Army Colonel who served as aide-de-camp during the 1812 invasion of Russia.
• The Battle of Manila Bay by Admiral George Dewey, commander of the American squadron which fought at this first naval battle of the Spanish-American War.
• The Battle of Tsushima by Captain Vladimir Semenov, an officer on board the Russian flagship Suvaroff at the pivotal 1905 naval battle of Tsushima.
• The Battle of the Yellow Sea by Captain Vladimir Semenov, relating the attempted breakout by the Russian Pacific Fleet outside of Port Arthur as viewed from the Russian cruiser Diana.
• The Bombing of Hiroshima, by Father P. Siemes. Copy of a manuscript typed by this German Jesuit priest in September, 1945, shortly after his personal observation of the August bombing and its aftermath.

• Reminiscences of the Civil War by John B. Gordon (American Civil War)
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (American Civil War)
• High Adventure by James Norman Hall (WWI Aviation)
• Advance and Retreat by John B. Hood (American Civil War)
• The Grand Fleet by John R. Jellicoe (WWI Naval)
• From Manassas to Appomattox by James Longstreet (American Civil War)
• Recollections of Marshal Macdonald by Etienne Macdonald (Napoleonic)
• Fighting the Flying Circus by Edward Rickenbacker (WWI Aviation)
• The Red Fighter Pilot by Manfred von Richthofen (WWI Aviation)
• Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo by Anne Jean Savary (Napoleonic)
• Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War by Reinhard Scheer (WWI Naval)
• Rasplata and The Battle of Tsushima by Vladimir Semenov (Russo-Japanese Naval)
• Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, by William T. Sherman (American Civil War)
• Memories of Forty-Eight Years Service by Horace Smith-Dorrien (WWI)
• Marshal Suchet - War in Spain,by Louis-Gabriel Suchet (Napoleonic)

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