Charles Morgan (businessman)
Charles Morgan was an American railroad and shipping magnate. He played a leading role in the development of transportation and commerce in the Southern United States through the mid- to late-19th century.
Bond of the Accessory Transit Company (of Nicaragua), issued 30. November 1855, signed by Charles Morgan
Morgan Iron Works
USS Onondaga in the James River
Tomb, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
William Walker (filibuster)
William Walker was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of "manifest destiny", Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing slaveholding colonies. Such an enterprise was known at the time as "filibustering".
William Walker (filibuster)
President Walker's house in Granada, Nicaragua. On October 12, 1856, during the siege of Granada, Guatemalan officer José Víctor Zavala ran under heavy fire to capture Walker's flag and bring it back to the Central American coalition army trenches shouting "Filibuster bullets don't kill!". Zavala survived this adventure unscathed.
William Walker's grave in the Old Trujillo Cemetery, Trujillo, Colón, Honduras
The Costa Rica National Monument represents the five united Central American nations carrying weapons and William Walker fleeing.
