Fortune Favors the Brave - The Story of the Texas Navy
Introduction | San Felipe: Opening Shots | Privateers | The First Navy | War with Mexico
After San Jacinto | The Second Navy | The Tabasco Incident | The Yucatán Alliance | Mutiny! | Blood Feud |
Back to Yucatán | The Trial of Edwin Moore | Epilogue | Resources & Finding Aids | Bibliography
Mutiny!
After delivering Moore's report to Texas, the San Antonio had been sent on to New Orleans for repair work. On February 11, 1842, with the principal officers of the schooner on shore, a number of seamen got into a drunken argument with Lieutenant Charles Fuller. Fuller ordered the marine guard to arms to protect the ship against a violent outbreak, only to have the sergeant of marines turn on him with a tomahawk. In the melee that followed, Fuller was shot to death and his body beaten with muskets and cutlasses. The mutineers then escaped from the ship, but were soon apprehended and placed in jail in New Orleans.
The Schooner San Antonio
DeGolyer-Maxson family collection. Used by permission. 1/174-27
Sam Houston gossips about the mutiny and other topics, February 1842