For a thorough discussion of the involvement of the Texas Wends in and during the American Civil War, you should read the following account by George Nielsen, Reluctant Confederates, found in his Wend Blogs titled George's Journal.


An interesting topic presented by Carroll Scogin-Brincefield at one of the quarterly meetings of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society was Standing in the Shadows: the Innocent Victims of the War.

What follows are the files of each Wendish soldier that were discovered by George Nielsen and Weldon Mersiovsky as they researched the involvement by Texas Wends on both sides of the Civil War.