I represent Konrad Bunse. I was a private in the 4th Company of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in 1758 in Stormbruch, Waldeck. 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. I was taken prisoner at Springfield, New Jersey on January 5, 1777; I was then sent to Philadelphia to be exchanged in July 1778. I rejoined my regiment, which had been sent to Pensacola. During the siege of the town, I was wounded while serving at an advance artillery position known as The Cliffs or Red Cliffs (the Spanish name was Barrancas). 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. I boarded the Santa Rosalia on May 29, 1781 for the voyage. We lived in encampments at New Town on Long Island. The Waldeckers resumed duty in July of 1782. 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 returned to Germany with the regiment and was released at Korbach, Waldeck, on 20 OCT 1783
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