Anti-German Sentiment

More realistic than he might have appeared is Dr. King Schultz, the abolitionist bounty hunter from the 2012 movie Django Unchained. The majority of one ethnic group that fought for the Union during the Civil War, although only around 20% of German immigrants to America in the 19th century fought for the Confederate, were known to be the most fervent abolitionists in the country. The results of this loud opposition were fatal for numerous German immigrants in the South.

68 German immigrants from the Texas Hill Country region set out for the Mexican border in August 1862 as part of a detour to seek refuge in the Union-controlled city of New Orleans. Confederates led by Captain James Duff intercepted them near the Nueces River. 36 immigrants and 12 Confederates died in what was afterwards referred to as a battle or a massacre; nine of the immigrants were murdered after they turned themselves in. The memorial that was erected later to remember the dead is the only one of its kind in the states of the South that is in German.