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in the American War of Independence is shown in a lecture on the 
subject by Colonel v. Werthern, of the Hussar Regiment Hesse 
Homburg, delivered by him at the officers’ Casino and printed at 
Cassel in 1895. He refers to Eelking and to von Pfister’s unfin- 
ished work on the same subject, Cassel, 1864, and to letters 
printed in the Preusstsche Militar Wochenblatt in 1833, and in 
the second volume of the Kurkessischen Zeitschrift. Colonel v. 
Werthern says his special purpose is to enlist the interest of owners of 
letters and journals of those who took part in the war, some of which 
had been shown to him, The publication of the Dérnberg diary 
shows that good results have followed his appeal. He estimates 
the number who remained in America as about 4500, and no doubt 
many of them became good Americans. He mentions the fact that 
the young volunteer, Ochs, who has left a capital book on his expe- 
riences as a soldier in America, rose to be a general in the Hessian 
army, and left a son who served from 1836 to 1850, and finally 
was incommand of the regiment which Colonel v. Werthern was 
addressing in 1895. 
Not without interest is Popp’s diary—he was a soldier in the 
Bayreuth Anspach regiment—who came to this country in his 
twenty-second year, an illiterate young fellow. He began his 
diary on June 26, 1777, and carried it on after his return home, 
adding some curious verses—Das Lied von Ausmarsch, and Geden- 
ken iiber die Hergabe der beiden Markgrafthiimer Bayreuth u. 
Anspach in Franken an das K6nigliche Haus-Preussen—in which, 
with great patience and ingenuity, the left-hand column is a strong 
thanksgiving, but reading across the lines there is a right-hand 
column in which the Lord’s Prayer is so divided as to change 
the sense into a bitter diatribe for this transfer of sovereignty. 
The original is preserved in the City Library of Bayreuth. It 
closes with some notes as late as 1796, and has some very good 
maps of the operations on the Hudson, on the Delaware and 
around Philadelphia. The copy of it which I own was made for 
me at Bayreuth, but the Librarian there said that he knew of no 
other material of the kind preserved in either public or private col- 
lections in that quaint old town so full of memories of the eigh- 
teenth century. Ina little book of Stories of Hessian War Hts- 
tory, by Freiherr v. Ditfiirth—the name is of interest as it was that 
of one of the Hessian regiments which served here—there is a state- 
ment that from one Hessian village thirty men were sent with vari- 
