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Colonel Craford, Tobias Du wall,1 and General Du wall
were taken prisoners. But the latter soon escaped, and
wrote immediately to Sweden to crave a court-martial,
u as this loss at Steinau not only touched worldly
possessions but his reputation as a soldier, which he had gained
during a service of no less than thirty years. He begs
to have all the officers present at the battle summoned,
including Lieut.-Colonel Lindsay, who had now gone over
to the Churbrandenburgers, and whose conduct was not
above suspicion. In the meantime Duwall went to
Breslau, but here also he encountered the same
halfheartedness. The magistrates refused to allow him the
means for raising new levies. Vexation and disappointment
brought about an illness in March 1634, and Duwall died
not long afterwards.
Ruthven, who had been sent to London on recruiting
business in 1634, was not behindhand in his complaints.
He writes from the Hague on the 2nd of March to the
chancellor, how greatly disappointed he had been at
1 Tobias was Jacob’s brother. He also was an unfortunate man.
There is a scrap of paper preserved in which he relates that his wife had
been captured with all her baggage during a sudden attack of the enemy.
The paymaster is to pay her fifty Thalers. The General’s wife had died
in 1633 when he asks for leave to go to Pomerania to see her decently
buried (Chemnitz, I.c.). Many of the Scottish officers were
accompanied by their wives, Ruthven, King, Leslie, and others. In 1642
Tobias receives 300 Thaler on account of his great poverty. From 1648
to 1650, he writes several letters from Gardelegen, a small fortified place
between Hanover and Berlin, to the Generalissimus of the Swedish troops,
Prince Karl Gustaf, describing the want of guns and ammunition, and
interceding for the family of his brother-in-law, who lived near him on a
small estate in Mecklenburg, to be freed from quartered soldiers should the
army march in that direction (Riks A. Letters to Karl Gustaf).
Comp, also Riksrådets Prot., vii. 41 where Arnheim, the German
General of the Chursachsen troops, is accused of treason and of having
been to blame for the ruin of Duwall’s soldiers in Silesia.
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