erally, in fact, tended toward neutrality. At the beginning of the Revolution, Pennsylvania's German population approximated 110,000 and many of this number were not British subjects due to the difficulties of acquiring citizenship by naturalization. Neutrality therefore became the natural attitude to adopt.1 For Henry M. Muhlenberg, war was an "unspeakable sin."2 Overruling their father's feelings in the matter, however, two of his sons became notable Revolutionary officers. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, one of Washington's most trusted Brigadier Generals, commanded one of the brigades at Chadd's Ford in the historic battle of Brandywine, where fought a fellow Lutheran, Corporal 3 John Frederick Eisenhauer. Hans Peter Eisenhauer was seventy-eight the year his seventeenth child (Ann's eighth) was born. His and Ann's first child, John Jacob, had been born only a short while before John Frederick fell in battle. The next five children were daughters and each was given a good German name. Then followed the boy they named John Peter 1William Warren Sweet, Religion in the Development of American Culture. 1765-1840 (New York: Scribners, 1952), pp. 36-38. 2Ibid., p. 38. ^Montross, op. cit.. p. 190.
erally, in fact, tended toward neutrality. At the beginning of the Revolution, Pennsylvania's German population approximated 110,000 and many of this number were not British subjects due to the difficulties of acquiring citizenship by naturalization. Neutrality therefore became the natural attitude to adopt.1 For Henry M. Muhlenberg, war was an "unspeakable sin."2 Overruling their father's feelings in the matter, however, two of his sons became notable Revolutionary officers. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, one of Washington's most trusted Brigadier Generals, commanded one of the brigades at Chadd's Ford in the historic battle of Brandywine, where fought a fellow Lutheran, Corporal 3 John Frederick Eisenhauer. 1William Warren Sweet, Religion in the Development of American Culture. 1765-1840 (New York: Scribners, 1952), pp. 36-38. 2Ibid., p. 38. ^Montross, op. cit.. p. 190. Hans Peter Eisenhauer was seventy-eight the year his seventeenth child (Ann's eighth) was born. His and Ann's first child, John Jacob, had been born only a short while before John Frederick fell in battle. The next five children were daughters and each was given a good German name. Then followed the boy they named John Peter
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