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Elleanore Callaghan Ratterman was a woman from Council Bluffs, Iowa who in 1856 emigrated to Walker’s Nicaragua with the intention of settling and living there. In this work, she details her unexpectedly short time in Nicaragua. Most of her recounting consists of the situation in Nicaragua being in constant wartime or threat of war during Walker’s administration. This version was originally published in 1916 in the Tennesse Historical Magazine with an introduction by William O. Scroggs, whose works on Walker were used in the Historiography Essay.
Callaghan Ratterman, Elleanore. “With Walker in Nicaragua. The Reminiscences of Ellanore (Callaghan) Ratterman.” Tennessee Historical Magazine, 1 No. 4 (December 1915): 315-330.