I represent Christoph Kussenbaur. I was a private in the 4th Company, 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in about 1761 in Unterriexingen. 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. The rest of the Regiment reached North America in 1776; I sailed with the 1777 recruit class and arrived later, as a private in the 2nd company. After two years of heavy action the regiment was sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. I was transferred to the 4th Company. 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 on January 7 ended in defeat and the troops retreated back to Pensacola. The attempt was not without loss of life, including the Waldeck commander… and me.
Sources: 38, 54