Treue Der Union Monument Represents An Incredible Cost For Comfort

[TexasTowelie]

This is a thread about the German immigrants that settled the Hill Country communities to the west/northwest of San Antonio in the late 1840s and their loyalty to the Union during the Civil War.




Just up Interstate 10, about 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, stands a monument in a small town that's unlike any monument in Texas.

A bell tolls from the old limestone Immanuel Lutheran Church in Comfort. Across High Street, a four-sided white obelisk is shaded by massive live oaks. The text written in German, is etched in formal old English lettering. Historian, writer and Comfort citizen Anne Stewart said, to many, this is sacred ground.

"We are sitting on this little rise above town, to the west,” she said. “You know these gentlemen are resting in peace.”

Those gentlemen were 34 German-speaking immigrants who, in the mid-1800s, settled in Hill Country towns like Fredericksburg, Boerne and Comfort.

Read more: http://tpr.org/post/treue-der-union-monument-represents-incredible-cost-comfort

[BaileyBill]

1. Thanks so much for posting this.

I know a lot of Texas stuff, but this was news to me. My great-great grandfather had to desert the Confederacy twice before making it up north to fight the rest of the war for the Union.

[TexasTowelie]

2. You're welcome.

I believe that I read something about this incident several years ago, but I didn't recall many of the details.

Mark it down as your Friday history lesson. Class dismissed for the Memorial Day weekend.