I represent Wilhelm Stoltz. I was a soldier of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born about 1744 in Elsoff, Wittgenstein. My religion was Reformed (Calvinist Protestant) and I stood 5’ 9” tall – a veritable giant compared to most men in the Regiment. 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 to North America in 1776 as a private. I was taken prisoner at Springfield, New Jersey, in January 1777; I was exchanged at Philadelphia the following year. 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 came on January 7, 1781 and ended in defeat. We retreated back to Pensacola. The attempt was not without loss of life, including the Waldeck commander, and myself.
Sources: 38, 54