Comfort: Treue der Union Monument

Obelisk shaped monument saying Treue der Union surrounded by chained stachions and a narrative sign in front
Civil War-era cartoon drawing showing men resisting conscription into the Confederate army being pulled by ropes and prodded by bayonets of soldiers. Titled “Southern Volunteers”

Resistance to confederate conscription, 1862. Currier & Ives print.

Painting of men being shot by soldiers while camping near an old tree with horses nearby and hills and trees in the background. Painting labeled “Battle of Nueces, August 10, 1862”

Painting of the Battle of the Nueces, August 10, 1862 (UTSA Special Collections Library)

Cover of january 20, 1866 edition of Harper’s Weekly showing illustrations of two men at the top and at the bottom of the page an illustration labeled “Funeral of German Patriots at Comfort, Texas, August 20, 1865”

Funeral of German patriots at Comfort, Texas, August 20, 1865. Harper’s Weekly. (Library of Congress)

Detail of funeral illustration showing a large group of people and soldiers standing around an ornate casket and a man speaking in the center of the circle

Detail of 1865 Harper’s Weekly Cover (Library of Congress)

The Treue der Union Monument stands as a memorial to the 36 German men and boys killed by Confederates on August 10, 1862, in the Battle of Nueces – or Nueces Massacre. The limestone obelisk is the oldest Civil War memorial in Texas, and the state’s only Union monument.

Treue der Union Monument

  • Second and High Sts., Comfort, TX
  • National Register of Historic Places
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