The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956 Page: 421
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Texans and Filibusters in the 1850's
had been dismissed by General Walker for intemperance, that
the Texas "Doctors Anderson and Richardson were absent with-
out leave," that General Walker was dissatisfied with Colonel
Lockridge and had reduced his force to "loo men, 90 of whom
were Texans," and that many Texan soldiers in Nicaragua were
most anxious to return home."
Then, early in May, "quite a number of Nicaraguans" from
Lockridge's regiment returned to Galveston." A few days later
more Texas Rangers belonging to Captain French's Company
reached the city "in a destitute condition." The editor of the
News asked Galvestonians to contribute money and clothes for
the relief of these men. Major James Bowie of Eagle Pass and
Captain R. E. Stewart of Anderson County arrived in the port
city from Nicaragua and reported that in April they had been
sent to the San Juan River by General Walker to contact Colonel
Lockridge. These two officers said they had found the colonel's
unit in a state of complete disintegration.46
A week later, Colonel Crawford returned to Galveston after
a trip to New Orleans. He at once published a long "card" in
the Galveston News vindicating Colonel Lockridge's conduct
and stated that the fortunes of war had placed the colonel's
command in a position so precarious that disintegration was un-
avoidable. Willard Richardson took the occasion to comment
that many of the returning Nicaraguans supported Crawford's
defense of Colonel Lockridge." Colonel Crawford, however, had
had enough of filibustering. He returned to Washington County
to run for the State Senate."s
W. O. Scroggs, in his study of the war in Nicaragua, wrote that
the term "Texan" was synonymous with the word "plunder"
among the natives and that the Texas Rangers "quickly violated
the confidence which had been placed in them by deserting, and
proved to be a gang who had come to Nicaragua only for maraud-
ing."49 This criticism should be read in conjunction with the
44Galveston News, April 4, 21, and 3o, 1857: Galveston Civilian, April 27, 1857;
New York Daily Tribune, April 17, 1857.
4.Houston Telegraph, May 11, 1857.
"4Galveston News, May 16, 1857.
47Ibid., May 26, 1857.
4SIbid., May 28, 1857.
49W. O. Scroggs, Filibusters and Financiers (New York, 1916), 243-244.421
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