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Treüe der Union: A German Union Man Cheats Death in Texas

Posted on January 21, 2021 by David T. Dixon

Three days after the attack on August 10, 1862, Ernst Cramer returned to the battlefield near the Nueces River to search for his wounded friends. Nineteen dead German Americans, bloated, blackened, and putrid in the unrelenting west Texas heat lay … Continue reading →

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