​"Treue Der Union"
("Loyalty to the Union")

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Marker Text: ​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 U.S. 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. (1968)

Marker No: 15

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Official Texas State Archeological Landmark 

​National Register of Historic Places

Geographic: 29.970304, -98.913918

Location: between 2nd and 3rd Streets, High Street,  Comfort