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8. Journal of Lowenstein Regiment. 
9. That of Plattes Battalion by Bauer. 
1o. That of Lossberg Regiment by Heusser. 
11. That of Huyn Regiment by Kleinschmidt. 
12. That of the Feldjager Corps. 
13. That of the Trumbach Regiment. 
14. That of the Knoblauch Regiment. 
15. That of the Mirbach Regiment. 
16. Reports of Knyphausen and Riedesel. 
Of printed books by Germans who served here, many are note- 
worthy, for instance, Friedrich Adolph Julius von Wangenheim, 
first lieutenant and later captain on the staff; came in 1777 from 
the ducal Gotha service into the Hessian Yager Corps, and 
remained in it after the war. He published in Gottingen in 1781 
a Description of American Trees, with reference to their use in 
German forests, and this little volume, dated at Staten Island, was, © 
after his return, reprinted in 1787 in a handsome illustrated folio. 
He afterwards entered the Prussian forestry service and established 
near Berlin a small collection of American trees, still preserved 
with pride by his successors in office in charge of it and named 
America, ”’ 
Dr. Johann David Schépf was a military surgeon in the German 
forces serving here during the American Revolution, and he 
printed in 1781 an account of his medical experiences, which was 
translated and reprinted in Boston in 1875. Healso printed in 1787 
a Materia Medica Americanis Septentionalis Potissimum Regni 
Vegetabiiis, in which he used material supplied to him by G. H. E. 
Muhlenberg, of Lancaster. Later he returned here and _ his 
Travels, published in 1788, are well known, and he did even greater 
service by making American botanists and men of other scientific 
pursuits better known to those of Germany by exchange of let- 
ters, etc. 
In 1817 General Baron von Ochs published in Cassel his obser- 
vations on Modern Art of War, containing much of his personal 
experiences during his service in this country as a subaltern. His 
Life has a very good account of his services in this country. 
In 1796 Ewald, then a lieutenant-colonel in the Danish service, 
published in Schleswig his Service of Light Infantry, already 
printed in Hesse Cassel in 1784; it is full of references to his per- 
sonal experiences in America, and it is significant of the man 
