Talk:Samuel Hamilton Walker

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Charles D. Spurlin, references, Texas Veterans in the Mexican War: Muster Rolls of Texas Military Units (Victoria, Texas, 1984). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935; rpt., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982). Courtesy of Handbook of Texas Online.

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Massacre at La Cuevas de Encantada

The attribution of this massacre to Samuel Walker is false. While there is a "You Tube" clip in Spanish asserting this, even the citation to Samuel Chamberlain's work "My Confession" is fabicated. Chapter XI "Massacre of the Cave", (Page 86 of the Harper Brothers 1956 edition) has General John Wool sending Lieutenant Irvin McDowell out to investigate some shooting in the nearby mountains above the Rancho Encantada, located between Saltillo and Agua Nueva. They discover volunteers: "mostly from Yell's Arkansas Cavalry" engaging in the murder of the civilians. Samuel Walker and the Texas Rangers are not mentioned. This event occured in January, 1847. While Walker did particpate in the Battle of Monterrey, as second in command to John Coffee Hays, he along with the rest of the First Texas Volunteer Mounted Rifles had returned to Texas by October, 1846. As your article suggests, he met with Samuel Colt in December, 1846. Walker was never again a Texas Ranger. He went north to recruit volunteers for the new regular army regiment, The U.S. Mounted Rifles, of which he had been appointed the captain of Company "C". He did not return to Mexico until mid 1847, when he was assigned to guerilla hunting duties out of Forteleza de San Carlos de Perote and took part in battles at Las Vigas and La Hoya. small>—Preceding unsigned comment added by Warren Pease (talk • contribs) 14:20, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Did SHW die in a duel?

The page 'List of people killed in duels' lists SHW as being killed in a duel in 1847, with a link to the SHW page. However that page says he was killed in the course of a battle, with no mention of his having fought any duels. I don't know which is right; are there perhaps two distinct individuals with similar names? 74.79.146.29 (talk) 16:38, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

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