Department for his fidelity and valor." [CMSR No. 18; Brigham's No. 456; State Library.]

Due to having become afflicted, as a result of his Texan experiences, with chronic dysentery, he returned to Germany for his health. This was soon fully restored, and he taught English for a time at the University of Halle; but the pay was small, and in 1840 [Ed: 1844, see Note 5.] he wrote Ashbel Smith begging for a loan of $40 with which to pay his return passage to Texas. Whether or not it was supplied by Smith, he found means to return to Texas, and his subsequent life was spent on the southwestern frontier; where he became noted as a skilled map maker and engineer.

He wrote, while in Germany, a narrative of his Texan adventures; which received successive publications, in German, in 1843, 1844 and 1845. In it he repeatedly asserts that he was the youngest member of the "Grays." He was killed by Indians at Dos Palos [Ed: Dos Palmos, see Note 5.] in the Mojave desert, in 1866.
 

Conrad Eigenauer came to Texas with Breece's Company, New Orleans Grays, participated with it in the storming of Bexar, and on the organization of the Matamoros expedition, transferred to Burke's Company, which he accompanied to Goliad and Refugio, and subsequently to San Patricio, and back to Goliad.

He was mortally wounded in action on March 19th, and died on Fannin's battlefield. Christophe Eigenauer, or Eichenauer, his brother, a glazier at Augersbach in Lauterbach,