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ragua. Later, in January, 1857, Willard Richardson, editor of
the Galveston News, published a letter signed by twenty-nine
members of the "Texas Rangers" in Nicaragua. These men, who
were serving under the command of Colonel John Waters and
Colonel Lockridge, wished to call to the attention of their fellow
Texans at home the fact that Colonel G. W. Crawford, a fellow
Ranger, would soon arrive in Galveston to raise another battalion
of Texas Rangers.28 As a recruiting inducement, the Galveston
and Houston newspapers printed Nicaraguan stories listing the
names of Texans who had achieved "promotion from the ranks"
in General Walker's army.29 These news stories referred to Colonel
Crawford's Texas Rangers as a company of two hundred and
forty men, and to Captain Higley's Company of Texas Infantry,
numbering one hundred and sixty men."0
On February 16, the editor of the Houston Telegraph reported
that within a few days Major W. C. Capers would be in Gal-
veston with a company of one hundred and twenty men en route
to Nicaragua; other volunteers were urged to meet the major's
unit at the port city."1 Two days later, Colonel Crawford, "the
Nicaraguan hero," attended a ball given by the Washington Light
Guards. A company of Nicaraguan Volunteers from Austin was
feted at this social gathering.32 Colonel Crawford took this occa-
sion to announce that each man in the Rangers would be mounted
and equipped with a "Texas saddle and a Colt revolver." When
this new contingent of men reached Galveston it was greeted by
a "grand reception" and a supper at the Methodist Church, which
was followed by a ball at the Tremont Hotel. The hosts on this
occasion were: Francis Lubbock, C. F. Duer, Dr. Millan, Dr.
Waters, J. A. Baron, and H. R. Runnels, who was elected gov-
ernor of Texas the following December."
The next day the steamer Louisiana arrived from Powder Horn
with one hundred and four men under the command of Captain
Marcellus French and Captain Sam Jackson. This unit had been
281bid., January 22, 1857.
29Houston Telegraph, January 23 and 26, 1857; Galveston News, January 22, 1857.
soHouston Telegraph, January 25, 1857.
8lbid., February 16, 1857.
s2Ibid., February 18, 1857.
salbid., February 25, 1857.418
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