Nobles and students, professors and peasants, poets and merchants, shouldered their muskets.

Housewives and maidens brought their scanty savings or their treasured trinkets as offerings for the altar of the Fatherland.

One incident deserves special notice.

A girl, Nanny by name, whose ringlets were her only wealth, shore them off, sold them, and brought the price of them, two thalers, for the sacred cause.

A noble impulse thrilled through Germany.