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| | Discover Fredericksburg Texas - Senior Travel |
 | | Held at Fort Martin Scott, east of Fredericksburg, the Pow Wow was a virtual kaleidoscope of brilliant colors and native regalia, with various people from children to veterans and war mothers to German citizens visiting the town specifically to participate in the Pow Wow. |
 | | Although Fredericksburg, Texas was not the site of a major battle, it was important because of its central location and its proximity to the western Frontier Line of Defense of the Confederacy that ran north to south. |
 | | In the town of Comfort, near Fredericksburg, the Treue der Union Monument, built in 1866, is the oldest Civil War monument in Texas. |
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