A JOURNAL OF 36 GERMAN-AMERICAN HISTORY PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE GERMANS IN MARYLAND 1975 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND THE MARYLAND GERMANS A HISTORY by DIETER CUNZ This is the first full history of the German immigration to a state of the Middle Atlantic region which shows the typical American juxtaposition of Anglo-Saxon and Continental European immigrants. The book opens with the first coming of the Germans to the old Calvert Colony around 1650 and brings the account to the 1940's. Here is the story of the Americaniza- tion of these German immigrants and their descendents. And here is the story of the men who lead them to an important place in the civic, cul- tural and religious life of their "Free State." For twenty years now The Maryland Germans has been considered a standard history by scholars and laymen who are concerned with the story of the "peopling of America." * * * Published in 1948 by the Princeton University Press, this important work on immigration history which was sponsored by the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland is now being reprinted. The Society has retained a very limited number of original copies for sale to libraries, institutions and interested individual scholars and researchers. ORDERS FOR SINGLE COPIES (NO MULTIPLE ORDERS ACCEPTED) FROM THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE GERMANS IN MARYLAND 231 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 476 pages Price:   $22.00  (Mail orders $22.50) The Report _________________________________________________________ VOLUME XXXVI 1975 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ A JOURNAL OF GERMAN-AMERICAN HISTORY PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE GERMANS IN MARYLAND EDITED BY KLAUS WUST ___________________________________ BALTIMORE, MARYLAND PRICE: $3.00 (Mail orders $3.25) COPYRIGHT 1975 THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE GERMANS IN MARYLAND 231 ST. PAUL PLACE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21202 PRINTED   IN   THE   UNITED    STATES   OF   AMERICA BY J. H. FURST COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE MEMBERS AND OFFICERS .................................................................... 4 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY ................................................................ 7 ____ FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN: SOLDIER OF FORTUNE OR MILITARY PROFESSIONAL? BY EDITH VON ZEMENSKY and MORGAN H. PRITCHETT   .     .       8 THE GERMAN BATTALION OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY CHARLES FRANCIS STEIN ................................................ 26 THE REVEREND PETER MUHLENBE®G:   A SYMBIOTIC ADVENTURE  IN VIRGINIA, 1772-1783 BY GEORGE M. SMITH ......................................................... 51 DISAFFECTION IN THE REAR: GERMAN TORIES IN THE WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS BY KLAUS WUST ................................................................ 66 _____ "RELICS OF SEVENTY SIX"............................................................... 75 "LAMBS QUARTER & WATER CREESES " FOR THE SOLDIERS ............. 25 ALL THE DUNG AND OTHER PUTRESCIBLE MATTER............................ 74 REVOLUTIONARY TOPICS IN EARLIER REPORTS   ....... 25 _____ MARYLAND NOTES ............................................................................ 77 IN MEMORIAM ................................................................................. 79 [ 3]