TREUE DER UNION
Site — Comfort, Texas
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/treue-der-union-comfort-texas/

The monument to the Union dead—killed by Confederates in 1862.

Treue der Union is a site in Comfort, Texas. The monument to the Union dead—killed by Confederates in 1862. Its accounts name only a collective — the union dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Treue der Union is the '62 — the 'Germans' that's the refused Confederacy, the 'Nueces' that's the massacred. The 'Mexico' is the flight — the '61-68 Unionists' that's the camped, the 'McRae' that's the attacked dawn. The 'wounded' is the executed — the 'nine' that's the shot after, the 'eight more' that's the Rio Grande.
The '1866' is the monument — the 'oldest Texas' that's the Union, the 'bones' that's the gathered '65. The 'Loyalty to Union' is the German — the '36 names' that's the carved, the 'only Union monument' that's the claimed South. Treue is the exception — the 'Hill Country' that's the freedmen-friendly, the 'Comfort' that's the kept.
The file keeps Treue der Union: the 1862 massacre, the Mexico flight, the executed wounded, and the 1866 monument.
Treue der Union is the archive's Texas file — the Union's Germans.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Treue der Union is the archive's Texas file — the refusal's cost.
A monument keeps its bones — the file's suggestion being that Treue's hold is the massacred: the 'Germans' that's the refused, the 'nine' that's the executed, and the '1866' that's the oldest Union.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The massacre dead are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Union dead. Treue der Union's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Treue der Union'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.
  source: Treue der Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treue_der_Union_Monument)
· [Media reported] historical legend: The massacre is documented history. Treue der Union in Comfort, Texas carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The press reported it; the reporting is documented, the phenomenon isn't. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.
  source: Treue der Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treue_der_Union_Monument)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The August 1862 massacre and the 1866 monument are documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Treue der Union' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Treue der Union — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treue_der_Union_Monument

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