By: Collin Ward

Department of History

Abstract

A monument sits in the small Texas Hill Country town of Comfort. While it is nestled out of the way, just off the main street of the town, it tells quite a tragic and heroic tale. The Treue der Union moment, inscribed in German and made of Texas limestone, preserves the little- known memory of a group of immigrants who were slain while standing up to insurmountable odds to defy an authority they disagreed with. This paper examines the events of the Nueces Massacre, the people who were involved, the monument made in tribute to it, and places the Nueces Massacre into the broader context of the Civil War in Texas.

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