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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 207 (search)
r oath, it may be well to remember how Steuben regarded this class of traitors. When acting as Inspector-General in Virginia, he heard among the roll of recruits the name of Arnold. He ordered the young man to the front, and said: I cannot, sir, enlist you by the name of a traitor. It is not my fault, said the recruit, what other name can I take? Take mine, was the reply, and the soldier enlisted by the name of Steuben. This detestation of traitors is an old intrinsic German feeling. Tacitus tells us that the German tribes regarded as among the highest of crimes, and as a disgrace which could never be wiped out, the voluntary abandonment by a soldier of his shield. What was true then is true now; for no soldiers have surpassed the Germans in fidelity. Steuben was preeminently distinguished for this German virtue, and s a mark of especial merit received the cross of the Order of Fidelity. It was the only one of his decorations that he: ever valued. It was the one he always