132 ROSENGARTEN—AMERICAN HISTORY. [April 6, 
organization and general and field officers; list of casualties at 
the capture of Fort Washington, signed by Knyphausen ; a bibli- 
ography of German books on the share of the German troops in 
the American War of Independence, among them the memoirs of 
Ochs and Senden, who lived to be general officers; various maga- 
zine articles on the same subject ; the diary of a Hessian officer, Lt. 
v. Heister, in the Zectschrift fiir Kunst des Krieges, Berlin, 1828; a 
fragment of an apparently original diary of a soldier, a copy of 
that of Rechnagel; extracts from the journal of Donop, and from 
that of the court of inquiry on the battle of Trenton; with reports. 
of the Lossberg, Knyphausen and Rall regiments in that affair, and 
of Schiffer, Matthaeus, Baum, Pauli, Biel, Martin, all dated Phila- 
delphia, 1778, and the finding of the court, dated April 23, 1782, 
and a fragment of its report. The author of this diary, Andreas. 
Wiederhold, was a lieutenant in Rall’s regiment and afterwards. 
captain in the Knyphausen regiment. Lowell, in his capital book 
on Zhe Hessians in America, makes frequent use of this diary, and 
in anote says that Ewald mentions Wiederhold as distinguished in 
1762, so that he could not have been a very young man when he 
served here. Lowell used a copy in the Cassel Library, and notes. 
that ‘‘it was made from the original by the husband of Wieder- 
hold’s granddaughter, and contains several interesting appendices,’’ 
so mine may be a counterpart. 
For many years Germany showed a good deal of regret for the 
part played by its soldiers in the English service in our struggle for 
independence. With her own rise and growth in importance as a 
nation, she has begun to assert the value of the services of the Ger- 
man allies of the British army. Eelking wrote an exhaustive his- 
tory of their achievements, and Kapp a valuable book on the sub- 
ject. Not long since a Hessian, Treller, published quite a good 
historical novel, Forgotten Heroes, in which he paid tribute to the 
Germans who fought under the English flag in America. Re- 
cently, another German author, Moritz von Berg, printed a long 
historical romance on the same subject, dedicated to the great- 
grandson of General von Heister, the leader of the Hessian sol- 
diers in America. The story is drawn largely from the papers of 
the times still preserved in the public offices and by private fami- 
lies in the country which sent its sons to fight here. The scenes 
described contrast the home-life of the Hessians at the time and 
the new country in which the young soldiers made their campaigns, 
