BY-WAYS OF WAR

By

JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE

HER MAJESTY THE KING, A ROMANCE OF THE HAREM,THE V-A-S-E, AND OTHER BRIC-A-BRAC

BY-WAYS OF WAR
The Story of the Filibusters

BY

JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
1901

Copyright, 1891, 1901,
by
JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE

Riggs Printing and Publishing Co.
Albany, U.S.A.

MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA 1850-1860

SKETCH MAP OF CENTRAL AMERICA at the time of the FILIBUSTERS

PREFACE

The rise and fall of the American Filibusters belong to the historyof the Nineteenth Century. From time to time their deeds have beenrecounted by actors in the stirring scenes, by contemporary observers,and, incidentally, by travellers in Spanish America who lingered for amoment over the romantic legend of the modern Vikings.

Among the works consulted in the preparation of this volume are: "AHistory of Miranda's Attempt to Effect a Revolution in South America,"by one of his officers; Yokum's "History of Texas"; Green's narrativeof the Mier Expedition, and Kendall's of that to Santa Fe; Henri de laMadelaine's "Life of Raoussett-Boulbon"; Wells' account of Walker'sexpeditions to Sonora and Nicaragua; Walker's "History of the War inNicaragua"; and the several works relating to the latter country ofSquier, Scherzer, Stout, Captain Pim, Chevalier Belly, M. Nicaisse,and many other travellers.

From such sources, as well as from the periodicals and officialdocuments of the day, and from the lips or pens of living comrades inthe more recent of those tragedies, have been gathered the facts toldin the following pages. It has been no easy task to sift the grains oftruth from the mountain of myth, prejudice, and fiction under whichthe actual deeds of the Filibusters long lay buried.

Forty years ago it would have been well-nigh impossible, in theheated atmosphere of the slaver