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Confederate 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.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- NUECES, BATTLE OF THE
- NUECES RIVER
- CIVIL WAR
- UNIONISM
- GERMAN ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CIVIL WAR
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