My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue.

Abstract

Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession 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, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain's wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color.Chamberlain's remarkable story is pure melodrama; but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true.