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*[https://archive.org/details/incidentsinindia00pittiala ''Incidents in India and Memories of the Mutiny, with some records of Alexander's Horse and the 1st Bengal Cavalry''] Edited by F W Pitt 1896 Archive.org. The subject of the book is General W R E Alexander, a Commander of the 1st Bengal Cavalry.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=A7XMfkemThoC&pg=PR5 ''The Shannon's Brigade in India: being some account of Sir William Peel's Naval Brigade in the Indian Campaign of 1857-1858''] by Edmund Hope Verney, Lieut. R.N. 1862 Google Books
** Also see Fiction below for a novel, ''The Devil's Wind'' by Maj. Gen.G.L. Verney, concerning the Shannon's Brigade.
*''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])
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NGoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Eight Months' Campaign Against the Bengal Sepoy Army During the Mutiny of 1857''] by Colonel George Bourchier , Bengal Horse Artillery 1858 Google Books
*[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].
*[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)
*''Barracks and battlefields in India; or, The experiences of a soldier of the 10th Foot (North Lincoln) in the Sikh wars and Sepoy Mutiny'', edited by the Rev Caesar Caine 1891 is available to read as a [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/507263 Pdf download], Digital Library of India. The soldier was Thomas Malcolm. This book is also available on a '''restricted access''' basis, probably accessible by those in North America on the [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100382741 Hathi Trust Digital Library]
*[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]].
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/throughmutinyrem00walkrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Through the Mutiny, reminiscences of thirty years' active service and sport in India, 1854-83''] by Thomas Nicholls Walker 1907 Archive.org
*[http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/2228 ''Fatehgarh And The Mutiny''] by F R Cosens (and C L Wallace) 1933 Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL]. May only be available Indian office hours (IST 10 am to 6 pm), (IST = GMT+5:30). Also available as a [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/81088 pdf download from the Digital Library of India]
*[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
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6wbmMHtf-FwC&pg=PA310 "The Mutiny"] page 310 ''Memorials of Service in India: from the correspondence of the late Major Samuel Charters Macpherson, Political Agent at Gwalior during the Mutiny'' 1865 Google Books
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/unitedservicema02pollgoog#page/n281/mode/1up "Martyrs, an Episode in the Indian Mutiny"] by Major Picton Warlow page 278
*''Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the North-West Provinces of India during the Mutiny of 1857'' arranged by Sir William Muir 1902 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/recordsintellig00indigoog#page/n6/mode/2up Volume 1] [http://www.archive.org/stream/recordsintellig01indigoog#page/n6/mode/2up Volume 2]
*''Selections from the Punjab Government Records''. Edited by A. Raynor and H. R. Goulding c 1911. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India: ''Volume 7''. ''Mutiny Records. Correspondence''. 2 pt. 1911. [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/281777 ''Mutiny Records Correspondence In Two Part Part I 1911'': POSSIBLY Volume 7], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/103324 ''Mutiny Records Correspondence Vol.7 Pt.2 1911'']. ''Volume 8''. ''Mutiny Records. Reports''. 2 pt. 1911. [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/529198 ''Mutiny Records Reports Vol.8; Pt.1 1911''], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/529197 ''Mutiny Records Reports Vol.8; Pt.2'']
*''My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9'' by William Howard Russell, Special Correspondent of ''The Times'' 1860 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sfVAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zfVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR4 Volume 2]
*[http://archive.org/stream/recollectionsofl00harrrich#page/20/mode/2up "The Indian Campaigns 1857-1859"] page 21, ''Recollections of a Life in the British Army during the latter half of the 19th Century'' by Gen. Sir Richard Harrison, Royal Engineers 1908 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=R24BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''How I won the Victoria Cross''] by Thomas Henry Kavanagh, Assistant Commissioner in Oudh, 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=onEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Personal Adventures during the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehghur, and Oude''] by William Edwards, Judge of Benares, and late Magistrate and Collector of Budaon in Rohilcund. 1858 Google Books
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/14761 ''The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian Mutiny''] by Mark Thornhill 1884 is available as a pdf download from the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Also available as a current reprint by Cambridge University Press [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7ihP7E49bDYC&pg=PP1 Preview Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924006145662#page/n13/mode/2up ''Daily Life during the Indian Mutiny : Personal Experiences of 1857''] by J W Sherer [former Magistrate of Futtehpore, and afterwards Cawnpore] 1910 (later reprint edition). Archive.org. Text previously appeared in Colonel F C Maude’s ''Memories of the Mutiny'' 1894, refer above.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bAYrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Revolt of the Sepoys''] ''Reprinted from the Princeton Review January 1858'' by John Cameron Lowrie 1858 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/ontorescuetaleof00stabiala ''On to the Rescue : a Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by Gordon Stables, Surgeon, Royal Navy. 1894 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/redyearstoryofin00traciala ''The Red Year: a Story of the Indian Mutiny''] by Louis Tracy 1907 Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449028 ''The Devils Wind''] by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. An account of the actions of the Naval Brigade of H.M.S. Shannon,which participated in the Relief of Lucknow, told through the eyes of a very young sailor.
'''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.
