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The memoirs of Wilhelm Ritgen have been published for the first time, from a manuscript.
https://www.engelsdorfer-verlag.de/Belletristik/Historische-Romane-Erzaehlungen/Lebenslauf-des-Oberstleutnants-Wilhelm-Ritgen-1789-1863::4588.html
Most of the other memoirs seem to have been published before.
Here a preview of one of the books:
https://books.google.de/books?id=X7tJDwAAQBAJ
The original is:
Karl Esselborn: Die Hessen in Spanien und in englischer Gefangenschaft 1808–1814. Nach den Erinnerungen von Ludwig Venator, Friedrich und Georg Maurer, Karl Chr. Caspary; Darmstadt 1912