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36 THE MASSACRE ON THE NUECES RIVER
river: James Elsner, E. Felsing, H. Hermann, V. Hoshmann,
Moritz Weiss, F. Weiss.
The following Unionists, members of Major Tegener's party,
escaped death at the hands of the Confederates and served three
years with much credit to themselves, being promoted from
the ranks to commissioned or non-commissioned officers in
the United States Army as members of the First Regiment of
Texas Cavalry Volunteers from Oct. 1862 to Oct. 1865:
F. Graf, A. Graf, Jacob Kusenberger, Adolph Zoller, Hy.
Schwethelm, Wm. Hester, Howard Henderson, Tom Scott, W.
B. Scott, Wm. Vater, John W. Sansom.
It gratifies me to be able to say that notwithstanding I sep-
arated myself from the majority of my neighbors and, obeying
the impulse of loyalty, served under the Stars and Stripes in
one of the greatest of all wars, I never forfeited the respect and
good will of my fellow Texans..