I represent Carl Philipp Steuernagel. I was a Sergeant and Quartermaster of the 4th Company, 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was known for having kept a diary of my service, including the events of my assignment in Pensacola. I was born in 1754 in Helsen. My father was Johannes, a cantor, and my mother was Dorothea Sophia Esau. My religion was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”). The 3rd Waldeck Regiment was hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. I went with the Regiment as a corporal in the 4th Company to North America in 1776. After seeing battle at Ft. Washington, I got seriously ill in December of that year. I spent 14 weeks in the hospital recovering from what I thought was a contagious form of scurvy. After two years of heavy action we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. I was promoted to Quartermaster in April 1780. After the surrender of Pensacola, we were sent by the Spanish to New York, on our honor not to fight against the Spanish again until we were exchanged. I boarded the Santa Rosalía on May 29,1781 to make that voyage. We lived in encampments at New Town on Long Island. The Waldeckers resumed duty in July of 1782, and a year later, in July of 1783, I and the Waldeck Regiment, 418 men and women and 13 children, left New York to return to Europe.
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