captivity had reduced the waldeck regiment to about approximately 250 soldiers. remember, they had more than 770. the hesitant officer johann, about a year ago was in south carolina at the time, learned about their fate. a lot shortly after that, an entry in his diary captured, the sense of grief about the loss of so many of his compatriots in what seemed to him to be among the remotest places of the world, as he it. how harold german bones are scattered around in this war. the prisoners that been captured before the surrender of pensacola were first held in new orleans, being taken to mexico, and then to havana, cuba. many died of disease there. others. many of them. probably went into spanish service. some undoubtedly settled in cuba, florida or louisiana. the troops that had surrendered in pensacola were sent to new york under the treaty with spain on spanish vessels. the last person on one of the embarkation lists was identified as a black woman. like the other women with a valid because she remained unnamed. most likely she was employed by the regiment as an

like the other woman with the waldeck, she remained unnamed. most, likely she was employed by the regiment as an individual officer or a servant. however, the records do not reveal anything about her other than that she was black and that she was free. this brings me to my final records. on the left, you see braunschweig garrison church records, dated 1877. it documents the baptism of flight five black drummers who accompanied the german troops to germany at the conclusion of the war. the baptisms were sponsored by officers that were veterans of the war, including general otto vaughan--. the register notes that the baptism and confirmation attracted an unusually large crowd. the record also notes that four of the five men were born in america, and one was born in africa. for the duration of the war, military units in america actively recruited black men as musicians, laborers, servants and, in rare instances, also privates. black men and women also served the regiment in less formal roles, including personal servants, laborers and cooks. on the

that orion is going to board on to the waldeck of the uss portland. katie, so much to be watching for. the splash down is scheduled for around 12:30 p nine eastern. we'll be covering it for you here at msnbc, and beyond, that we're looking at artemis, to a human mission, and artemis 3 a bentley lending his back on the. back to you. >> unbelievably exciting. thanks, lindsey for walking us through all of that this morning. coming up in the show, how will democrats handle kyrsten sinema's exit from the party? well there is a precedent for, at that involves the late harry reid turned independent during the iraq war. can you guess who that was? senator-elect and congressman, peter, wells will join me next to talk about how democrats can keep kristen sinema on their side. plus, nearly one month after the tragic murders of four college students in idaho, the killer still out there. i'll talk to a former fbi profiler about what kinds of suspects investigators might be looking for. looking for. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor

can follow if you wish, all of the remaining recovery work including the orion and brought into the waldeck uss portland on a -- well deck of the uss portland. it is on youtube, the kennedy space folks are in charge of the operations to bring orion back into the well deck to get it transported back to the kennedy space center for postflight analysis. that will wrap up our coverage of orion's return to earth and we will point you to our post splashdown news conference coming up at 2:30 p.m. central time, 3:30 p.m. eastern time as folks discuss entry, splashdown, and recovery and take a look back at the 25.5 day mission of orion, the first flight, the next up, a crew on board, two years from now. with that, we wish you a great sunday, this is mission control housto >> nasa administrator bill nelson will hold a conference on the moon mission on c-span, c-span now are video and online at c-span.org. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these companies and more including sparklight. >> at sparklight, it is our home, too, we are facing our greatest challenge, that is