[1] In 1862, the Confederate States of America imposed martial law on Central Texas, due to resistance to the Civil War.

The bodies of the remaining massacre victims were recovered for burial by local residents in a mass grave on the lot purchased by Degener, Steves and Heuermann.

[4] With donations from local residents and families of the victims, the Treue der Union Monument was dedicated on August 10, 1866 in Kendall County.

The obelisk stands twenty feet high and was constructed of native limestone by local stonemasons and several carvers.

Cloud, Florida), Union memorials and graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and numerous monuments at battlefields such as at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

[52] In a 2012 article for The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, physician and US Army veteran Frank Wilson Kiel sorted known facts from lore about the monument.

Citing monuments to the Union on Southern soil, he names two memorials in Tennessee, Greeneville and Cleveland, as well as three others in Texas, Denison, Dallas and New Braunfels.

Accordingly, he states that there is no protocol for flying a flag at half-mast, but rather a matter of choice for non-governmental institutions such as the Comfort Heritage Foundation.