This beautiful memorial stands in Comfort, Texas across from the middle school . The plaque in front of the memorial reads:
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 US 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.
I will post photos of the other sides of the memorial with the names of those honored in later posts.
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