Crabb slides
- 1. Slides on a 1857NY Times articleBy Beth Darrow
- 2. How Mr. Henry A. Crabb Came to be in SonoraA New York Times article published on May 21, 1857 had the title: How Mr. Henry A. Crabb Came to be in Sonora.The article was written to the editors of Courier and Enquirer by Francis D. Clark.The article was mainly about what Clark believed that his acquaintance, Crabb, was doing close to the California border in 1857.
- 3. What the Article saidFrancis Clark pointed out that he believed that Henry Crabb was in Mexico so that he could acquire more lands for the Confederacy.He wanted to gain lands that already had slavery.But, Clark did not believe that Crabb was filibustering in Mexico.Clark mentions that some even referred to Crabb as Colonel.
- 4. What happened According to Historian James M. McPhersonIn 1857 Henry Crabb, who had migrated to California from Mississippi and had joined the Democratic Party, led a filibustering invasion of the Sonoran province of Mexico.His invasion was ambushed.The Mexican troops killed or wounded twenty-one filibusters.The Mexican troops executed Crabb and fifty-nine others.
- 5. San Diego Journal of HistoryThe San Diego Historical Society gives out a journal called The San Diego Journal of History.The Journal claims in a Winter 1973 issue that San Diego was the closest California city to the execution of the filibusterer Henry A. Crabb.It also says that San Diegans were shocked by the horrible end to the filibuster.