On May 27, 1856, the Galveston Weekly News carried the following obituary, under the caption of:
. . .Death Of An Old Pioneer---Died at his residence, near Virginia Point, on the 5th inst., in the seventieth year of his age, James Campbell. Campbell enlisted to join Commordore Perry on Lake Erie; reaching Philadelphia, he was transferred to the Constitution and participated in the brilliant engagement with the Guerriere. He afterward joined Lafitte and was his favorite lieutenant at this place over thirty years ago. Campbell always spoke of Lafitte as sailing under letters of marque; that he was a highly honorable man and a privateer, but unhesitatingly denied the general impression that he was a pirate. Many times Campbell had, in this vicinity, frequent skirmishes with the (Karankawa) Indians....He was the last of Lafitte's men left on this Bay
. . .Death Of An Old Pioneer---Died at his residence, near Virginia Point, on the 5th inst., in the seventieth year of his age, James Campbell. Campbell enlisted to join Commordore Perry on Lake Erie; reaching Philadelphia, he was transferred to the Constitution and participated in the brilliant engagement with the Guerriere. He afterward joined Lafitte and was his favorite lieutenant at this place over thirty years ago. Campbell always spoke of Lafitte as sailing under letters of marque; that he was a highly honorable man and a privateer, but unhesitatingly denied the general impression that he was a pirate. Many times Campbell had, in this vicinity, frequent skirmishes with the (Karankawa) Indians....He was the last of Lafitte's men left on this Bay
On May 27, 1856, the Galveston Weekly News carried the following obituary, under the caption of:
. . .Death Of An Old Pioneer---Died at his residence, near Virginia Point, on the 5th inst., in the seventieth year of his age, James Campbell. Campbell enlisted to join Commordore Perry on Lake Erie; reaching Philadelphia, he was transferred to the Constitution and participated in the brilliant engagement with the Guerriere. He afterward joined Lafitte and was his favorite lieutenant at this place over thirty years ago. Campbell always spoke of Lafitte as sailing under letters of marque; that he was a highly honorable man and a privateer, but unhesitatingly denied the general impression that he was a pirate. Many times Campbell had, in this vicinity, frequent skirmishes with the (Karankawa) Indians....He was the last of Lafitte's men left on this Bay
. . .Death Of An Old Pioneer---Died at his residence, near Virginia Point, on the 5th inst., in the seventieth year of his age, James Campbell. Campbell enlisted to join Commordore Perry on Lake Erie; reaching Philadelphia, he was transferred to the Constitution and participated in the brilliant engagement with the Guerriere. He afterward joined Lafitte and was his favorite lieutenant at this place over thirty years ago. Campbell always spoke of Lafitte as sailing under letters of marque; that he was a highly honorable man and a privateer, but unhesitatingly denied the general impression that he was a pirate. Many times Campbell had, in this vicinity, frequent skirmishes with the (Karankawa) Indians....He was the last of Lafitte's men left on this Bay
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