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*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofg00forb/page/n5 ''Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59, including the Relief, Siege, and Capture of Lucknow, and the Campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude''] by William Forbes-Mitchell, late Sergeant, [[93rd Regiment of Foot|Ninety-Third Sutherland Highlanders]] 1894 (first published 1893) Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/reliefoflucknow0000forb/page/n5 ''The Relief of Lucknow''] by William Forbes-Mitchell. Edited, and with an introduction, by Michael Edwardes 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
'''For younger readers'''
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_NoBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Childhood in India; or, English Children in the East by the wife of an officer, late of H.M. service''] 1865 (Google Books) . A Tale for Children "Founded on Fact" based on the experiences of a family in India during the Mutiny of 1857.
*[https://archive.org/details/begumbaghtaleofi00fenniala ''Begumbagh A Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by George Manville Fenn 1879 Archive.org. George Manville Fenn 1831-1909, was a prolific writer of boys' adventure stories.
:[https://archive.org/details/GM_Fenn_Gil_the_Gunner ''Gil the Gunner; or The Youngest Officer in the East''] by George Manville Fenn 1892 Archive.org. A boys’ adventure story about a young officer in the [[Bengal Horse Artillery]].
*[https://archive.org/details/disputedvctaleof00gibbiala ''The Disputed V.C. : a Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by Frederick P Gibbon, c 1894 Archive.org. A boys’ adventure story.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x030736418?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Barclay of the Guides''] by Herbert Strang probably 1908. HathiTrust Digital Library. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32102 1928 reprint of 1908 original] Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/barclayoftheguid32102gut Archive.org version]. An adventure story for younger readers.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/chalonerofbengal00lanciala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Chaloner of the Bengal Cavalry: a Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by Percival Lancaster R E. 1915 Archive.org An adventure story for younger readers.
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*[http://www.usiofindia.org/publications/Journal/Archives/ "Reflections from Lucknow on the Great Uprising of 1857"] by Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones from the United Service Institution of India website. Scroll and select "October 2005-December 2005", then scroll to the article. Retrieved 12 October 2014
*[http://sites.google.com/site/laurieletters/1-introduction Irregular Correspondence] is a collection of letters by the three eldest sons of John and Eliza Laurie, to their parents. Includes the letters from India 1858-1861, of Lieutenant Julius Laurie of the 34th Foot. (Website by William Dyson-Laurie)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170726072557/http://www.leighanddistricthistory.com/index.php/law/indian-mutiny-1857-1858 Leigh and District History: Indian Mutiny 1857-1858], now an archived webpage. Personal accounts from soldiers in India, sent to family in the Leigh District, Greater Manchester, England. The account by James Ramsdale, stated to be of the "14th Battalion Royal Infantry", appears to be a transcription error - it is considered he was actually in No. 3 Coy/14th Bn. Royal Artillery.<ref>Snook, Mike. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170819034041/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11969&sid=132751e5450348d8a925c2d2a7154561#p63140 How did new troops get to Roorkee in 1858?] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 3 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017, now archived.</ref>
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44225863 "Three Letters From The Indian Mutiny"] by Brian Robson. ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 77, No. 310 (Summer 1999), pp. 100-105. jstor.org. Read online for free, but registration with jstor.org required, see [[Miscellaneous tips]] for more details. Three letters from Rifleman Francis Foster of the [[Rifle Brigade]], dating from the latter phases of the Mutiny, in 1858.
*[http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/32 "Counter-Insurgency in the Bombay Presidency during the Mutiny-Rebellion, 1857"] by Bruce Collins, British ''Journal for Military History'' Vol 1, No 2 (2015). bjmh.org.uk.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/revoltincentral00burtgoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''The Revolt in Central India 1857-1859''] compiled by Army Headquarters, India 1908. Archive.org
*''Selections from the Punjab Government Records''. Series edited by A. Raynor and H. R. Goulding. Volumes 7 and 8 are in respect of the Indian Mutiny and were published 1911.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281777 ''Mutiny Records Correspondence In Two Parts [Vol. 7<nowiki>]</nowiki> Part 1'']; [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.10817/page/n3 [Vol. 7<nowiki>]</nowiki> Pt.2''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54949 Pt.2 '' 2nd file]:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529198 ''Mutiny Records Reports [Vol.8<nowiki>]</nowiki> Pt.1''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529197 ''Mutiny Records Reports [Vol.8<nowiki>]</nowiki> Pt.2'']. Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection. :[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107962/page/n3/mode/2up ''Press Lists of Mutiny Papers of 1857-58 in the Punjab Secretariat''] published c 1925 (although catalogued 1857). The author appears to be HLO Garrett, Keeper of the Punjab Records at Lahore. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/heroesofindianmu00gill#page/n11/mode/2up ''Heroes of the Indian Mutiny: stories of heroic deeds''] by Edward Gilliat 1914 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173458 ''A Postscript To The Records Of The Indian Mutiny''] Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Full title: ''A Postscript to the Records of the Indian Mutiny. An Attempt to Trace the Subsequent Careers and Fate of the Rebel Bengal Regiments, 1857-1858'' by Lieutenant-Colonel G H D Gimlette 1927. “Gimlette lists all of the units of the Bengal Army and gives a short annotation of each one discussing their eventual fate”<ref>
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tDAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Recollections of a winter campaign in India in 1857-58''] by Capt Oliver John Jones, R.N. 1859 Google Books. The author was attached, as a volunteer, to the [[53rd Regiment of Foot]] for five months
*''From Cadet to Colonel: the Record of a Life of Active Service'' by Sir Thomas Seaton 1866 Google Books, The Indian Mutiny commences Volume 2 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RkEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA52 Chapter III, page 52] ([http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bUEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5 Volume 1])
*[[93rd Regiment of Foot]]
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91095/page/n1/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of Military Service with the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders''] by Surgeon-General Munro, formerly Surgeon of the Regiment 1883 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. The regiment arrived in Calcutta in September 1857, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91095/page/116/mode/2up page 117].
**[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofg00forb/page/n5 ''Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59, including the Relief, Siege, and Capture of Lucknow, and the Campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude''] by William Forbes-Mitchell, late Sergeant, [[93rd Regiment of Foot|Ninety-Third Sutherland Highlanders]] 1894 (first published 1893) Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/reliefoflucknow0000forb/page/n5 ''The Relief of Lucknow''] by William Forbes-Mitchell. Edited, and with an introduction, by Michael Edwardes 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
**[https://archive.org/details/recollectionsah00alexgoog/page/n12/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Highland Subaltern, during the Campaigns of the 93rd Highlanders in India, under Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, in 1857, 1858 and 1859''] by Lieut.-Colonel W Gordon-Alexander 1898 Archive.org. Refers to some instances which were reported inaccurately in Malleson's ''History''.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lieutenantgener00hervgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Lieutenant General Crommelin, C.B.: Royal (Bengal) Engineers; a Memoir and a Retrospect in the Year of the Mutiny in India''] by Charles Hervey 1887 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_03108#page/n33/mode/2up, ''Life and travels of James Fisher: an autobiography''], page 32 by James Fisher 1890 Archive.org. During the Indian Mutiny the author belonged to a British Army regiment, 2nd Battalion Military Train, whose duty was a mounted transport. (This regiment was later part of the Royal Army Service Corps and nowadays the Royal Logistic Corps)
*[https://archive.org/details/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal''] by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org. The author was with the [[9th Lancers]], and for a period with Irregular Cavalry. His Indian Mutiny experiences commence [https://archive.org/stream/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog#page/n157/mode/2up page 127]. His wife's account follows.
:[https://archive.org/details/aladysdiarybefo00ouvrgoog ''A Lady's Diary Before and During the Indian Mutiny''] by M H Ouvry 1892 Archive.org. The author 's husband wrote the book above.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunnerjingosjubi00stra ''Gunner Jingo's Jubilee''] by Major-General T Bland Strange. Late Royal Artillery 1893 Archive.org. Born 1831 in [[Meerut]] he subsequently came to India when the Indian Mutiny broke out (page 129). [https://archive.org/details/gunnerjingosjubi00stra/page/n15 Contents] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bland_Strange Thomas Bland Strange] Wikipedia. [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7974 “Strange, Thomas Bland”] by Roderick C. Macleod in ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003.
*''Memories of the Mutiny'' by Francis Cornwallis Maude, late Colonel R A, and formerly commanding the Artillery of Havelock's Column. 1894 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/memoriesmutiny01shergoog Volume I] 2nd Edition. [https://archive.org/details/MemoriesOfTheMutiny2 Volume II]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00unkngoog#page/n100/mode/1up ''Forty One Years in India: From subaltern to commander-in-chief Volume 1''] by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar 1897 Chapter 6 onwards. Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin02robegoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Volume 2''] 1898
*[https://archive.org/details/oldmemories00gougrich/mode/2up ''Old Memories''] by General Sir Hugh Gough 1897 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924064186590/page/n13/mode/2up 2nd digital file which lists the illustrations in the book] Both Archive.org. Indian Mutiny recollections.
*[https://archive.org/details/recollectionsah00alexgoog/page/n12/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Highland Subaltern, during the Campaigns of the 93rd Highlanders in India, under Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, in 1857, 1858 and 1859''] by Lieut.-Colonel W Gordon-Alexander 1898 Archive.orgernet. Refers to some instances which were reported inaccurately in Malleson's ''History''.:[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth2015.91095513692/page/n1n11/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of Military Service with the 93rd Sutherland HighlandersAn Old Soldier’s Memories''] by SurgeonS. H. Jones-General MunroParry, formerly Surgeon of the Regiment 1883 late Captain Royal Dublin Fusiliers. 1897 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. The regiment author arrived in Calcutta India in September 1857, [https://archive1849.org/details/dliHe joined the 1st Madras Fusiliers in 1850 (page 24).granthHe took part in the [[2nd Burma War]] and the Indian Mutiny.91095/page/116/mode/2up He left India, page 117]c early-mid 1860s.
*[https://archive.org/details/generalsirrichar00thor ''General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India; a record of forty-three year's service as Soldier, Political Officer and Administrator''] by Thomas Henry Thornton 1898 Archive.org. Born 1821, Sir Richard served in the Bengal Army from 1838 for nearly twenty years. At the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny he was Brigade-Major of the Gwalior Contingent which mutinied. He later raised Meade’s Horse. Subsequently in 1859 he was appointed Political Agent at Gwalior, finally retiring in March 1881.
*[https://archive.org/stream/recollectionsoft00gordrich#page/106/mode/2up Sepoy Mutiny] page 107 ''Recollections of thirty-nine years in the Army'' by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon, Surgeon- General 1898 Archive.org. He was then a surgeon with the [[10th Regiment of Foot]].
====Fiction====
*''How to Manage It: a Novel'' by Iltudus Thomas Prichard 1864. [https://archive.org/details/howtomanageitan00pricgoog/page/n6/mode/2up Vol.I], [https://archive.org/details/howtomanageitan02pricgoog/page/n8/mode/2up Vol. II], [https://archive.org/details/howtomanageitan01pricgoog/page/n6/mode/2up Vol.III] Archive.org.
:[http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=241 Iltudus Thomas Prichard] victorianresearch.org.
:He was also the author of the factual account ''The Mutinies in Rajpootana'', see [[Central India Campaign]].
*[https://archive.org/details/00365245.2394.emory.edu ''First Love and Last Love: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by James Grant 1869 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eightdaystaleofi00forr ''Eight Days: a Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by R E Forrest, first published 1891. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/shadowofmoon00kaye ''Shadow of the Moon''] by M.M. Kaye 1980, [https://archive.org/details/shadowofmoon00mmka 2nd file] both Archive.org Lending Library. Originally published in 1957 with much of the historical content cut by the publisher, republished in its original form restored to its full length in 1980, following the great success of the author's 1978 book ''The Far Pavilions''.
*[https://archive.org/details/flashmaningreatg00fras/page/n3 ''Flashman in the Great Game : from the Flashman papers, 1856-1858''] by George MacDonald Fraser 1989. Archive.org Lending Library. Flashman in the Indian Mutiny. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flashman_Papers The Flashman Papers] Wikipedia.
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