Schindler wrote: >Once again, I'm indebted to you. Thanks for the info and thanks to Don >Fehlings, too. >I'm learning a lot as I wade through the hundreds of entries in the >Archives. But, the more I learn, the more questions I seem to have. > >Right now, I'm trying to trace my Christian Schaeffer, who was a soldier in >the Hanau Erbprinz Regiment, Company 2, and from what John Merz says was his >capture at Saratoga. I've learned that the enlisted men were marched from >there to Winterhill and a year later to Charlottesville. I wonder if there >is a roster somewhere of those prisoners at these camps?? >Somehow, Christian ended his days as a POW at the camp in Reading, PA and it >was from there that he indentured himself. >Now---how/when was he transferred there? And that indenture--there must be >a record to whom somewhere?? >See what I mean--all those question marks ! > >Maybe someone on the list has some answers. And, thanks again, for all the >answers you've supplied. > >Jeri > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bob Brooks" <rcbrooks@pivot.net> >To: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 11:31 AM >Subject: @WL Re: [HESSIAN] Soldier ranks > > > > >>Jeri -- >> >>A "batman" is the British term for and officer's valet or servant. In >>German, he was called a "Bedienter." >> >>A "Chasseur" was the French term for the rank & file of a British "Light >>Infantry" company, one of the two "flank" companies in a British Regiment >> >> >of > > >>Foot (i.e., infantry) >> >> > > >==== AMREV-HESSIANS Mailing List ==== >For Hessian research in Canada contact the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre, Ameliasburg, Ontario e-mail 7thtownmagrc@kos.net or check the mail list archives of this list for address. >You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them, going from one message to another. >To search: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=AMREV-HESSIANS >To browse: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L >**************** > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > I would also be interested in this topic as my husband's ancestor was also in that regiment [though unsure of his company - a grenadier]. Looking forward to posted responses. Toni H. St. Peters, MO HACHENBERGER and variants