1900.] ROSENGARTEN—AMERICAN HISTORY. ays 
had learned useful lessons in the art of war in the American Revo- 
lution. Even the pay, clothing, food and allowances of the Hes- 
sian soldiers were increased in order to secure something like the 
advantageous conditions under which officers and men served under 
the British flag in America and in the other wars and expeditions 
that were carried on largely by German allied troops. 
Of the German diaries and journals now accessible in print 
there are: 
t. Melsheimer, printed in Montreal from a copy furnished by 
Stone. 
2. Papet, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History. 
3. Dohla, printed by Ratterman in Deutsch. Amerik. Magazin, 
Vol. i, No. 1, October, 1866. 
4. Pausch, printed by Stone in AZunsell’s Sertes. 
5. Baurmeister, in Jag. of Amer. History, 1877, by Bierstadt, of 
the N. Y. Historical Society. 
6. Riedesel’s Letters, in His Life by Eelking, reprinted in a 
translation by Stone. 
7. Madame von Riedesel’s Ze¢¢ers, first printed in Berlin in 
1801, and since then in several editions both in Germany and in 
this country. 
8. Schubert v. Senden’s Journal (an extract was printed in 1839 
in Vol: xlvii of the Journal for Art, Science and History of 
War, Berlin, Mittler). 
Of others not yet printed there are MSS.: 
1. Malsburg, mentioned by Eelking as in his possession in Mein- 
ingen in 1862. Of it Bancroft’s collection (now in the Lenox 
Library, N. Y.) has a copy in two volumes, made by Kapp’s direc- 
tion, with his note that ‘‘ Malsburg was a superficial observer and 
reporter,’’ as well as of :— 
2. Reuter’s, of Rall’s regiment, 1776-83. 
3. Lotheisen’s Journal of the Leib (Body Guard) Regiment, 
1776-84, with a description of Philadelphia in 1777-7. Eelking 
notes that he had compared the original signed by Lotheisen, Mar- 
burg, August 1, 1784, with the copy. 
4. Piel, Lossberg Regiment, 1776-83, Vol. i, includes Diary of 
Voyage, 1782, and Extracts from Trenton Court of Inquiry. 
5. Steuernagel, Waldeck Regiment, 1776-83. 
6. Wiederhold, Diary. 
7. Ewald, Feldzitg der Hessen in Amerika, copied from Ephem- 
eriden, Marburg, 1785. 
