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TIL of the 1862 Nueces Massacre in Texas, when 96 Confederate soldiers killed 37 German-Texan Unionists who were attempting to flee to Mexico, and slaughtering 9 Germans who were badly wounded in the fight, marking the end to overt German Unionist resistance in Texas for the remainder of the war.

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