Nueces Massacre of Germans loyal to the union

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8:41p, 3/3/19
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Never heard of this until today
Kind of interesting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueces_massacre
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9:01p, 3/3/19
Hill Country Germans were mostly pro Union and they paid for it. Judging from the muster rolls from the Cuero and Victoria areas, the Germans of south Texas were considerably more likely to side with the Confederacy
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9:00a, 3/4/19
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The war they call civil had barely begun
Me and my cousins decided we'd run
Up through Louisianan to meet up with Grant
But one hundred damn rebels shot us there in the sand
At Indianola
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9:31a, 3/4/19
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There are two versions of this story: that it was a massacre and that it was a battle. I think they both have a bit of truth to them. These guys weren't on a hunting trip.
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10:03a, 3/4/19
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Besides counties in the Texas Hill Country, close to 15% of all Texas counties in 1861 voted against secession. Many of those counties had large German, Hispanic and other European populations.

https://texags.com/forums/49/topics/2321502
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4:16p, 3/4/19
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There was also a mass hanging (41) in Gainesville of suspected Union sympathizers in October 1862. They were mainly against the draft.
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2:38p, 3/5/19
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My great grandfather came here from Prussia in the 1850's and opened a leather tannery in Yorktown. When the Confederacy tried to force him to make boots, saddles, holsters etc, he packed up his family and went back to Prussia. After the war was over, he came back and reopened his tannery.
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In reply to P.H. Dexippus • 4:42a, 3/7/19
Mr. AGSPRT04 said:
The war they call civil had barely begun
Me and my cousins decided we'd run
Up through Louisianan to meet up with Grant
But one hundred damn rebels shot us there in the sand
At Indianola

My first thought as well
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In reply to Martin Cash • 4:42a, 3/7/19
Martin Cash said:
My great grandfather came here from Prussia in the 1850's and opened a leather tannery in Yorktown. When the Confederacy tried to force him to make boots, saddles, holsters etc, he packed up his family and went back to Prussia. After the war was over, he came back and reopened his tannery.

Lol. I guess that's how you handle that!
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9:49a, 3/8/19
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Rebel in Blue a novel by Herman Toepperwein published in 1963 tells of this incident. The author was related to my HS English teacher and we had to read it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rebel-In-Blue-Herman-Toepperwein-1963-Hardcover-HC-Very-Nice-/291603979649
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In reply to Rabid Cougar • 10:41a, 3/8/19
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Rabid Cougar said:
There was also a mass hanging (41) in Gainesville of suspected Union sympathizers in October 1862. They were mainly against the draft.


Just read up on this. I had never heard of it before.
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12:29p, 3/8/19
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1862 saw the largest mass lynchings (Gainesville) and "Legal" hanging (Lincoln's execution of the Sioux in Minnesota) in US History.
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In reply to Aggie1205 • 3:43p, 3/8/19
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Aggie1205 said:
Rabid Cougar said:
There was also a mass hanging (41) in Gainesville of suspected Union sympathizers in October 1862. They were mainly against the draft.


Just read up on this. I had never heard of it before.
My relative was the Sherriff of Cooke County at the time.
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3:00p, 3/20/19
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My great-great-grandfather (born in Germany) was conscripted into the Confederate Army. He didn't want to fight, but he didn't have a choice. I can't prove it, but I'm fairly certain he gave himself up at the first opportunity.
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In reply to Aggie1205 • 9:49p, 3/28/19
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Aggie1205 said:
Rabid Cougar said:
There was also a mass hanging (41) in Gainesville of suspected Union sympathizers in October 1862. They were mainly against the draft.


Just read up on this. I had never heard of it before.
I have some very close friends that live on large acreage in Cooke County that live on Lynch Crossing Road....many of those lynched are believed to have been secretly buried on what is now their property.
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12:27p, 3/29/19
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Because many Texas Germans were pro union The civil war monument in the main plaza in New Braunfels is a generic statue of a soldier that isn't identified as either confederate or union with an inscription along the lines of "in memory of our fallen soldiers"
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In reply to dead zip 01 • 3:30p, 3/29/19
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dead zip 01 said:
Because many Texas Germans were pro union The civil war monument in the main plaza in New Braunfels is a generic statue of a soldier that isn't identified as either confederate or union with an inscription along the lines of "in memory of our fallen soldiers"

Cool tidbit. Too bad we must tear it down!
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5:52p, 3/30/19
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According to RIP Ford's diary, a way was worked out for the Germans to serve as Indian patrols rather than in the Confederate Army...but only after the above mentioned.
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