My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue by Samuel Chamberlain (.PDF)
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My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue by Samuel Chamberlain (.PDF)
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Overview: Samuel Chamberlain’s My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue is a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier’s adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, it also details Chamberlain’s adventures with the scalp-hunting Glanton gang, the story that Cormac McCarthy used as the basis for his celebrated novel Blood Meridian.
My Confession is the story of Samuel Chamberlain, a Boston boy who hoped to be a theological student but could not control his amorous and pugilistic inclinations and so left for the West. According to him, he seduced countless women in the United States and Mexico, never missed a fandango, fought gallantly against Mexican guerrillas and rode with the First Dragoons into the Battle of Buena Vista. His remarkable story is pure melodrama, but W.H. Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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