TREUE DER UNION MONUMENT
This monument in Comfort, Texas honors the memory of the sixty-eight men
from this region who were loyal to the Union during the Civil War. They tried to
escape into Mexico so that they could join the Union Army. They were ambushed
and killed near the Nueces River. Their bones were recovered, except for those
who drowned in the Rio Grande River, and buried at this site in 1865.
KILLED
18 October 1862 at the RIO GRANDE RIVER:
- Joseph Elstner
- Edward Felsing
- H Herrmann
- V. Hohmann
- Moritz Weiss
- Peter Bonnet, Comfort
- Frank Weiss
- Fritz Lange, Comfort
KILLED 10 August 1862 at the NUECES RIVER:
- Ludwig Bauer
- F. Behrens
- Ernst Beseler
- Louis Boerner, Comfort
- Albert Bruns
- Hugo Degener
- Hilmar Degener
- Pablo Diaz
- F. Vater
- Emil Schreiner, Kerrville
- J.H.Kallenberg, Fredericksburg
- H. Markwardt, Sisterdale
- C. Schaefer
- Louis Schierholz
- Heinrich Steves, Comfort
- Wilhelm Telgmann
- M Weyrich
- H. Weyershausen
- A. Vater
CAPTURED AND MURDERED
H. Flick
C. Bock
F. Tays
Theo. Bruckisch
Wilhelm Boerner, Comfort
A. Luckenbach, Fredericksburg
A. Ruebsamen
L. Ruebsamen
Heinrich Stieler, Comfort
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