# library.forgemesh.io – US Civil War Personal Narratives Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io – US Civil War Personal Narratives Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 137 public-domain books in the 'United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Personal Narratives' category, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/united-states-history-civil-war-1861-1865-personal-narratives
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-us-civil-war-personal-narratives-shelf-95d0bd96
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_U-XRtSyjrx_lFsZDmXI7z

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability library-forgemesh-io-us-civil-war-personal-narratives-shelf-95d0bd96 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you give me a list of public-domain Civil War personal narratives from that forgemesh library — show me up to 30 books with links so I can read them?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-categorized list of public-domain Civil War personal narratives without needing to build a search query. It is ideal when the user wants to browse or discover memoirs and eyewitness accounts from the 1861-1865 period, rather than searching full text. Prefer the full-text search sibling endpoint if the user has a specific passage or keyword in mind.

## Known failure modes

- limit parameter exceeds 50 — likely returns an error or is capped at maximum
- payment of $0.003 USDC not included or rejected — returns 402 Payment Required
- network or service unavailability — returns 5xx error
- empty result if corpus index is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Curated shelf: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives — 137 public-domain books including Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier, Three years in the Sixth Corps : $b A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of the rebellion, April, 1865. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 137 public-domain Civil War personal narrative books (default 20, configurable up to 50 per call), each with metadata and drill-down routes enabling full-text retrieval of the complete works. No API key or license required.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier",
    "author": "Owens, John Algernon",
    "book_id": 28152,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 12591
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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