Nicaragua Filibuster
William Walker
(May 8, 1824-Sept. 12, 1860)

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 William Walker homesite. Nashville, Tennessee

 
 






BOOKS
Jamison, James Carson With Walker in Nicaragua or Reminiscences of an Officer of the American Phalanx (1909)
Mayes, Guillermo Campaña nacional Centroamericana contra los filibusteros en Nicaragua 1856-1956 (1956)
Obregon Loria, Rafael. Costa Rica y la guerra del 56 (La campaña del tránsito) 1856-1857 (1976)
Roche, James Jeffrey. Historia de los Filibusteros (1908)
Rodriguez Beteta, Virgilio. Trascendencia Nacional e Internacional de la Guerra de Centro America Contra Walker y sus Filibusteros (1965)
Walker, William. The War in Nicaragua (1860)

DIARY
Diario privado de Maximo Blanco, comandante en jefe de la Columna Vanguardia costarricense, diciembre 1856-febrero 1857
 

JOURNALS
William Walker and the Steamship Corporation in Nicaragua The American Historical Review, Jul., 1905
William Walker's Designs on Cuba The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Sep., 1914
The Navy and Filibustering in the Fifties United States Naval Institute Proceedings, April, May, June, July, August, September 1918
The Republic of Lower California, 1853-1854 The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 2, No. 2. (Jun., 1933), pp. 194-213.
The Navy's Cross -- William Walker (Military Affairs, Dec., 1975)
A Gray-Eyed Man: Character, Appearance, and Filibustering (Journal of the Early Republic, Winter, 2000)
 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
"Defeat and Victory of the Walker Filibusters," Macon Weekly Telegraph, May 6, 1856
Army Register Promotions and Appointments (El Nicaraguense, Oct. 25, 1856)
Register of the Nicaragua Army (El Nicaraguense, Nov. 1, 1856)
Maj. Hess' Reply to Gen. Goicouria (N.Y. Herald, Vov. 22, 1856)
Filibusterism in America (N. Y. Herald, Feb. 10, 1858)
Black Emigrants Not Wanted (Charleston Mercury, Nov. 13, 1862, 1)
A Yankee Adventurer (Charleston Mercury, Oct. 24, 1863, 1)
 

FILIBUSTERS
Allen, John "Jack"
Fayssoux, Callender I.
Goicouría, Domingo de
Haynes, Dennis E.
Laine, Francisco Alejandro
Schlesinger, Louis
Titus, Henry Theodore
Wheat, Chatham Roberdeau
 

COSTA RICA
Costa Rica in 1856: Defeating William Walker While Creating a National Identity
 

NICARAGUA
Estrada, Jose Dolores
Nicaragua Emigration Company
Batalla de Rivas: 11 de abril de 1856
William Walker en Nicaragua
 

COLLECTIONS
Callender Fayssoux Collection of William Walker Papers Tulane University
Register Book--New Orleans Agency of Nicaragua Emigration Company, Nov. 23, 1855
Nicaragua muster roll 1855-1856

MAPS
Rio San Juan 1861
Rio San Juan Project 1854-1931
Rio Grande Projects 1838-1878
Rio San Juan
 

REPUBLIC OF LOWER CALIFORNIA
Greetings From the Republic of Sonora
Republic of Lower California/Republic of Sonora (1853-1854)
Republic of Lower California Proclamation
 

Excerpt from California Filibusters by Fanny Juda (Museum of the City of San Francisco)
William Walker Grave