Wanderers in Wonder

The ‘Treue der Union’ (Loyalty to the Union) Monument was dedicated in Comfort, Texas on 10 Aug 1866. The monument commemorates the murder of thirty-four ‘Union’ men at the Nueces Massacre in 1862. The state of Texas may have joined the traitors and the Confederacy, but the German Americans in the Texas Hill country did not. They remained loyal to their country, the United States of America. In 1862 the traitors imposed martial law on the Texas Hill Country due to resistance to the treasonous Confederate war effort. Sixty-one conscientious objectors from the Hill Country attempted to flee to Mexico and eventually the United States of America. Confederate partisan James Duff, leader of Duff’s Partisan Rangers, would hunt them down and murder thirty-four of the pacifists. Some were executed after they surrendered because they would not sign treasonous ‘Loyalty Oaths’ to the Confederacy. Several of the loyal Union men escaped capture. Others drowned attempting to cross the Nueces River.

The monument to these heroes was the first in the United States of America authorized to fly ‘Old Glory’ at half-mast in perpetuity. 

Peace…Wanderers in Wonder.