The Quarterly has received a pamphlet containing an account by John W. Sansom of the “Battle of Nueces River” of August 10, 1862. Mr. Sansom was one of a band of Texas refugee Unionists, sixty-five in number, mostly Germans, who, while endeavoring to escape into Mexico, were overtaken at the Nueces River in Kinney County by a superior band of Confederates and almost annihilated.

The author maintains that the attack was wholly unexpected and a piece of treachery on the part of the Confederate authorities, but he does not sustain the charges of wholesale butchery so frequently made by the Unionists. Altogether it is a very clear and satisfactory account of a much-beclouded affair.

Chas. W. R.

How to cite:
Chas. W. R., "“Battle of Nueces River”", Volume 010, Number 1, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 110. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v010/n1/review_17.html
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