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From: "SarahReveley" <>
Subject: [GERMAN-TEXAN] August 10, 1862
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:36:16 -0500

Texas Day by DayConfederate soldiers attack Unionists beside the Nueces
River

On this day in 1862, Confederate soldiers attacked a force of Hill
Country Unionists camped en route to Mexico beside the Nueces River
in Kinney County. The skirmish is known as the battle of the Nueces.
The sixty-odd Unionists, mostly German intellectuals, had camped without
choosing a defensive position or posting a strong guard. Nineteen
of them were killed and nine were wounded The wounded were executed
by the Confederates later in the day. Two Confederates were killed
and eighteen wounded. Of the Unionists who escaped from the battle,
eight were killed on October 18 while trying to cross into Mexico.
After the war the remains of the Unionists were gathered and interred
at Comfort, where a monument commemorates them.

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