Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Military and Naval Microfilm Archive

The Schwalm Collection contains primary sources of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association (JSHA), an organization dedicated to the history of "Hessian" soldiers from the German principalities of Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Hanau, Waldeck, Brunswick, Anhalt-Zerbst, and Ansbach-Bayreuth who served as auxiliaries to the British crown during the American Revolution (1775-1783) and who became citizens of the new United States after the war.

Finding aids for the Schwalm Collection