The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 149
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Captain Charles Schreiner
with the beautiful country in the Guadalupe Valley. Years later
while discussing his early experiences with his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. A. C. Schreiner, Sr.,9 he was asked if his mother did not
object to his going off on a hazardous adventure at such a
tender age. His reply was, "She realized that it was the only
way I could earn a man's wages, and instead of weeping she
bade me farewell and asked God's blessing for my safety."
After two and a half years in the Texas Ranger service,
during which time he had been on the frontier helping to pro-
tect it against Indians and marauders, Charles Schreiner re-
turned to his home in San Antonio to enter the ranching busi-
ness, on a very small basis, of course. His mother's death in
February, 1857, probably prompted his return. Soon thereafter
he moved from Bexar to Kerr County to engage in cattle
raising on a slightly larger scale.
A short time after moving to Kerr County, Charles Schreiner
married Lena M. Enderle, October 1, 1861. He brought her
to his ranch on Turtle Creek. Together they battled the ele-
ments of nature as well as the Indians and marauders; their
home was a crude cabin which the young rancher had built
by hand a few months before. Little is known of Mrs. Schreiner's
early life except that she came with her parents sometime
around 1850 from the Black Forest region in Germany. No
doubt she met Charles Schreiner somewhere in the vicinity
of San Antonio. Her parents were both born in the Grand
Duchy of Baden, opposite Strasbourg, Germany, and came to
America when she was quite young.
When the War Between the States was declared, Charles
Schreiner enlisted as a volunteer in Captain S. G. Newton's
Company at San Antonio. He served for three and one-half
years until the hostilities were terminated at Appomattox. His
service with the Texas Rangers had undoubtedly instilled into
him a love of Texas and an appreciation of the Southern
cause, even though he was not and never had been a slave owner.
He was the only one of the four Schreiner brothers to fight for
the South.
Even though the future financier never obtained the rank of
a commissioned officer throughout the Civil War, his record was
9Mrs. A. C. Schreiner, Sr. still resides in Kerrville. She is the mother of
Scott and A. C. Schreiner, Jr.149
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