Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-15
w alker's Men.

were at the siege OF hlVaS. Inc Oyane
made the passage i'll twenty-four days.
In conversing with these men, we found
that a remarkable degree of respect for their
past commander, and much enthusiasm re-
garding future prospects in Nicaragua, APP
pearco to animate the whole Not one
complained of the treatment he had re-
ceived from General Walker but all attrb-
uted their sufferings and privations to causes
which it was not in his power to control
Many of them conversed very intclligently
in regard to the state of affairs in the coun-
try where they had met with such disasters,
and maintained that Walkers conduct had
been much misrepresentcd. All were ear
nest in proclaiming their desire to "turn
about and go back" if the opportunity should
again offer itself.
Lieutenant Isaac r. Snyder, of Phila-
dclphia, has been with Walker since last
November. He thinks Walker one of the
bravcst of soldiers. Walker in battle nov
CT said "Go ahead, mcnw he always said
Come on, men!" and Snyder had seen
him at the head of his men in the midst of
heavy fire, from which it did not scom
possible that he could come out alive. Sny-
der says that he was always well treated by
Walker, and has no cause to complain of
him. He never knew of but two or three
;mstnnces in which tho Commanders con-
duct could be considered cruel One was
when sergeant who had deserted was cap
turcd and brought back to Walker, who
ordered him to be shot without court
martial. The other instance, Walker gave
orders to q party to go in search of six de-
nd 10 oh
them instantly. Three of them were dis
covered and shot. Snyder thinks Gen.
IIcnningscn "fnc man, and better versed
in military matters than Walker. Thinks
Walker did the best he could for his sold
iers in regard to food and clothing, The
greatest loss of Walker was his steamers,
the capture of which Snyder attributes to
the agency of Vanderbilt If it were not
for the loss of the steamers Walker would
be in possession of the country now. The
Commissary Department he blamcs for not
storing more provisions at Rivas, where,
during the siege, the men we're compelled
to subsist some time upon the meat of jack
asses and mules. Snyder is ready to join
Walker again if he returns to Nicaragua.
He says that the soldiers experienced no
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Rivos, when they were cruelty treated by
the Costa Ricans. He spoke Of the valor
of boy about sixteen years of age, who
was attached to the army, and who, in a
battle, after being wounded in the head
with bullet, went about calling upon the
wounded mon to follow HIM In the same
fight this boy afterwards received three Sc
we're bullet wounds in his breast and two
of the bullets still remain in his body. He
is now alive and on board the Roanoke
Alexander t. s. Anderson belongs to
Brooklyn, n. Y, and was captain under
! Walker, with whom he served Tor about 1 5
months. He thinks Walker brave, pa
tri tic, unselfish, and not cruel" but adj
mtted that he could have fed and clothed
the soldiers better if he had tried" Al
though having high opinion of Walker,
he believes Henningsen was the man for
| the army" he being better General than
! Walker. He says Walker is ambitious
and fond of glory;" that he had to be very
severe in his discipline in order to keep the
army together, and thinks such severity
was. justi6able. Says the men had to live
on mule meat forty days at Rivas, and as
some of the mules were sick when killed
the meat was not good, and eating it caused
tojQin Walker again, if there's any kind
of show" ,
James l., Lambert, of Richmond, Va,
went from California to join Walkers ar.
my, and had been with it two years as a
i private. He likes Walker, and says that
almost all of the mon brought here in the
1 Cyane are attached to him, and ready to go
back again. Says that only the deScrters
complain Of /" Walkers cruelty" Thinks
Walker a. great soldier, and Nicaragua q
i paradise. Wants to so back to Nicaragua
to live there, when the Americans have
control of the country
| Some of the other soldiers With whom we
1 conyerscd speak generally in praise of Walk
er, although some Of the men regard him
J osnot quite UP to the requirements of .
revolutionary hero,
j Most of the men by the Cyone hail from
4 the South and West. Only two of then
are Massachusetts men, Ryan, formerly
residing in this city, and Chspiu r. Brown
at East Granville. The, officers included
| in the company are Major Dulany of Balti
more, Geuts. Simpson and Snyder of Phil
! adelphia, and Lieut. Kurn, of Virginia.
Il VIM. Bagley, one of Walkers men, dice
on the passage. "A short time before h,
left Nicaragua, he received Intelligence tha
relative had left him, alarge fortune.
4 Never having received any pay for thei
services in Nicafagua, the men now her,
are almost without money, and with yer,
seanty clothing They shave left the Cy
I ane. and many of them viii probably seel