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Civil War Soldiers of Kendall County, Texas
(as W. Luckenbach) on January 28, 1864, in Gillespie County, bringing with him a
shotgun. He served until discharged on June 1, 1864. He is enumerated in the 1860
census with wife Catherine and three children, living next to older brother Jacob and
younger brother August.
Frederick "Fritz" Maerz (Marz, Mears) 1841-? Bugler, Company C, 1st Texas
Cavalry (Union). He enlisted August 29, 1863, at New Orleans, as a private.
Captured at the Battle of Las Rucias June 25, 1864, he was in the Confederate prison
at Camp Groce. Seventeen prisoners escaped on November 16, 1864, including
Frederick Maerz (Lisarelli 1999, 112). He arrived within the Union lines at Brazos
Santiago on March 10, 1865. Sent on to New Orleans, he rejoined his unit at Baton
Rouge on April 28, 1865. Whether he is the 1850 New York immigrant Friedrich
Maerz or the 1861 New York immigrant Friedrich Maerz or the 1870 St. Louis
resident Frederick Maerz, or whether he is related to early Comfort settler Carl Maertz
is speculative.
1st service Heinrich "Henry" Friedrich W. Magers II (Magus, Majers) 1843-1911
Unspecified rank and unit (Confederate). The Blanco County 1860 Agricultural
Schedule identifies the immigrant father Henry Majers as a farmer. On the 1867 Voter
Registration, this man, the son, lived on the Guadalupe River in Kendall County, and
the tabulator remarked, "Conscripted by Rebels. Deserted to US Army 1864. Union
man." No record of Confederate service is identifiable.
2nd service Heinrich "Henry" Friedrich W. Magers-Private, Company A, 1st
Texas Cavalry (Union). He served February 14, 1864, to October 31, 1865. He died
in San Antonio and is buried in City Cemetery No. 6.
George W. Main (Mane) 1839-1912 Corporal, Company B, Baltimore Light
Infantry Regiment, Maryland Volunteers and Batteries A/B, 1st Maryland Light
Artillery (Union). He enlisted December 1861, and transferred to Battery A in May
1862 at Yorktown. He deserted at Hagerstown in November 1862 on a march to
Harper's Ferry. He was arrested in February 1864 and returned under guard to his unit
at Culpepper. He was permitted to reenlist as a veteran volunteer, and even got a
thirty-day furlough for rejoining. He served until the unit was mustered-out in July
1865.
In his two 1909 pension applications, one from Comfort in January and another from
Mission City in March, he reports moving to Missouri in 1869, and later in 1899 to
Texas. He is likely the farmer George Main enumerated in the Cass County, Missouri,
1870 U.S. Census. Then in December 1870 in Bourbon County, Kansas, he married
Rebecca Clements. At the time of the 1910 U.S. Census, living on High Street in
Comfort with wife Rebecca and three daughters, he claimed Union Army service. He
died in Cuero in 1912 according to the DeWitt County death certificate, and it was95
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Kiel, Frank Wilson 1930-. Civil War Soldiers of Kendall County, Texas: A Biographical Dictionary, book, 2013; Comfort, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth460183/m1/101/: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .