AUGUST 10, 1862:
The
Nueces Massacre. Many first-generation immigrants from Germany settled in the central
Texas Hill Country. They tended to be Unionist and abolitionist. Because of
their sentiments, the Confederate States of America imposed harsh martial law
on the Hill Country, causing many to flee southward to Mexico. A small armed
group of German-Americans fleeing toward Union lines was intercepted by a
company of Confederate soldiers on the banks of the Nueces River and
slaughtered. Of the 61 Unionists, 56 were killed. Enmity over the confrontation
continues to plague the Hill Country to this day.
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