Congressman Lincoln and the return of the wooden leg of General Santa Anna

[Bill Richter]

The 33d Texas Partisan Ranger Cavalry, Isaac Surratt was in coy A, defended the Lower Rio Grande during the CW to keep trade over the Rio Grande to mexico and internationally open. See William Richter (with J. E. “Rick” Smith III) “Isaac in Texas--A Theoretical Look at the Other Surratt,” SURRATT COURIER , 33 (November 2008), 3-7.

Matamoros (no final "a" and it means Kill the Moors) was on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and hence off limits to US blockaders. The Rebs shipped goods up the Rio Grande to Matamoros and Bagdad (no longer there) and trans-shipped them across the river up along the Camino Real to San Antonio and on to wherever until the US taking of Vicksburg and Port Hudson restricted the supplies largely to the Trans Mississippi. See Thomas Schoonover, "Mexican-United States Relations, 1861-1867" (Ph.D. dissertation, U Minn, 1970).

Mrs Quesenberry's sister was married to Augustin Iturbide the first Emperor on Mexico in the 1820s, I think. As such she was a Centralist (or her husband was) and many of them supported the French intervention under Austrian prince Ferdinand Maximilian during our CW, although I am not sure Mrs Q's sister and her husband did.