Excerpt about the Saxon volunteers from the memoirs of Gen. V. Grigaliūnas Glowackis

I went to the German occupier battalion stationed at the Kėdainiai manor. I hired almost an entire company of their infantry and a troop of cavalry. German soldiers are brave and hate Russians. I hired them with the aim of helping my inexperienced and insufficiently trained volunteers to get more involved in the action, as they say, to “fire” them. I sent the German cavalry and my cavalry reconnaissance platoon to the rear of Kėdainiai, behind Kupiškis and Skapiškis, to create panic in the Bolshevik rear. I included the German infantry in my left wing and they helped me a lot near Subačius, Velžys. Most importantly, their presence helped convince the fleeing Bolsheviks that they were being attacked not only by Lithuanians, but also by Germans. The fact that our people wore clothes bought from the Germans and were armed with German weapons helped a lot to spread this view. The Russians are afraid of the Germans like the devil fears the cross. The presence of the Germans with us created conditions for the volunteers to get used to the weapons and the circumstances of the battle. It must be admitted that the first shots fired by our spiritual heroes in battle were more dangerous to crows flying in the sky than to the enemy crouched on the ground. Later, everyone learned both to save ammunition and to shoot accurately.