| Marker Number |
15 |
| Atlas Number |
5259000015 |
| Marker Title |
"Treue Der Union" |
| Index Entry |
"Treue Der Union" |
| Address |
|
| City |
Comfort |
| County |
Kendall |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
508319 |
| UTM Northing |
3315440 |
| Subject Codes |
monuments; Civil War; German immigrants/immigration |
| Marker Year |
1968 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
between 2nd and 3rd Streets, High Street, between 2nd and 3rd, Comfort |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
("Loyalty to the Union") This German language monument, erected 1866, honors the memory of 68 men (mostly Germans) from this region who were loyal to the Union during the Civil War. Trying desperately to reach U.S. Federal troops by way of Mexico, about 40 of the men were killed by vengeful Confederates bent on annihilating them, in the Battle of the Nueces (on Aug. 10, 1862) and a later fight (Oct. 18). The bodies of the slain and those who drowned swimming the Rio Grande were left unburied. A group of Germans gathered the bones of their friends and buried them at this site in 1865. (1968) |
