I represent Johann Christian Eisenberg. I was a private in the 4th Company of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born March 2, 1759 in Vasbeck, Waldeck Province. My father’s name was Johann Henrich Eisenberg, and my brother, Johann Christian, was in the same company as I, and it was just the two of us siblings. I was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”). The 3rd Waldeck was hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. We reached North America in 1776. After two years of heavy action we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. In early January 1781, a few months after the Spanish had captured Mobile, General Campbell sent a group of Waldeckers, Maryland and Pennsylvania Loyalists, and indigenous warriors to The Village (on the eastern shore near the head of Mobile Bay) in an attempted counterattack against the Spanish. The attack ended in defeat and we retreated back to Pensacola. The attempt was not without loss of life, including the Waldeck commander. I myself was wounded. After the surrender, we were sent by the Spanish to New York, on our honor not to fight against the Spanish again until we were exchanged. We lived in encampments at New Town on Long Island. I was transferred to the 2nd company in June 1782 and the Waldeckers resumed duty in July. 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. I went on to have three wives and 9 children in total. By 1794 I had become a swineherd. I died November 5, 1828.
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