Hessian Soldiers of the American Revolution

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Fort Frederick, Maryland.

HABS/HAER Collection. Library of Congress.

By the time of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress decided to press the Fort back into military service, this time as a prison camp. In 1778 necessary repairs were made and hastily completed, according to the orders, only �in a rough way�, so that by the time the Yorktown prisoners were ordered there, it was in a state of disrepair, and there was much concern because the fort was in shambles. Following the personal inspection by the Commissary General of all Prisoners, Abraham Skinner, a report was sent to General Washington that the situation at the Barracks at Fort Frederick was �insufficient for the reception of prisoners � indeed they are almost destroyed.�
So even as the group of Yorktown prisoners that had originally been ordered to Fort Frederick were crossing into Maryland, the final decision as to where to confine them had not been reached, and in the end, because of the unfit conditions there, the guard bypassed Fort Frederick and escorted them to the Barracks at Frederick Town. Unfortunately, conditions at the Barracks, it turned out, were not much better than at the Fort.

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The Bayreuther Zeitung Newspaper No. 58, 23 March, 1802.	Ansbach Regiment Marie Rasnick Fetzer Bob Brooks	Ansbach - Bayreuth Troops Jochen Seidel

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