Posted on 08/09/2020 5:15:40 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1862, German immigrants fleeing Confederate conscription were caught near Texas’ Nueces River and slain to a man.
The nomenclature of the “Nueces Massacre” is controversial since this party of Union loyalists making a leisurely pace* for Mexico got its shots off as it was gunned down in a gully by Texas Partisan Rangers in the predawn hours.
But the incident becomes a clear candidate for these pages with the summary execution of the surviving captured and wounded men later this day. Here’s the account of an obviously upset member of the Confederate party:
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
nueces = “nuts?”
Were the shots likened to nuts?
This was not a judicial execution. At best it was just plain murder. At worst it was a massacre and a war crime.
Growing in the river bottoms.
This day’s victims are honored by the Treue der Union obelisk, the only Union monument in Confederate territory,
Lots of Union monuments at Vicksburg MS. At least one (Illinois) in Marietta, GA. Another Illinois monument at Andersonville. Etc.
Not too much white priviledge happening there, eh?
Thanks for these posts, they are fascinating.
Not too much white priviledge happening there, eh?
Thanks for these posts, they are fascinating.
We have a G.A.R. obelisk in our local cemetery here in Arkan-saw.
1862 was a bad year for German immigrants in America. Lots of them were massacred in Minnesota by the Sioux. Some bad sh!t.
Both sides had bloody hands in that an every other war.
Some of my relatives were killed there.
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