I have a little story of Friedrich August which was told to me by a neighbor here in the US. He fled with his family from Saxony at the end of world war II and settled in our little german community. He told me that he did not like the King of Saxony, I asked him why and he told me that FA liked to imbibe and was always late............this caused the death of the my neighbors father............according to him, his father was a captain of the guard who had to wait with his men at a train station for the king to arrive. The troops, including the captain were dressed in full parade uniforms, and had to stand outside the station in very cold weather. On this occasion, the King was several hours late, and the captain caught pneumonia and died shortly after. Sadly, my neighbor passed away some years ago of the same thing ... although he was in his 80's then. He had many pictures of his family in military uniforms and even pictures of Dresden and Chemnitz before world war 2. He also had many other stories, which escape me now..........
