I was hoping you could give me some information on a short story I read probably 46 years ago.
The story is about a young Hessian soldier who is captured during the American Revolution after the battle of Bennington in 1777. His captors, Vermont militiamen, have orders to kill any prisoners, but they wind up sparing him and one brings him back to his farm.
I think they story is titled either “Hans of Luck” or “Lucky Hans.” “Hans” may also be spelled “Hons.” I read this story in the 1970s.
I read this one too. I grew up in Vermont, and I feel like this was contender for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher award, which is an award chosen by Vermont school students annually.
I was thinking it might be by Mary Stetson Clarke, or Margaret Goff Clark; someone with a middle name. But nothing I could find in a quick online search yielded obvious results..
You could try Cora Cheney and Leon W. Dean, who both wrote books set in Vermont. Maybe it was one of them?