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Filibusters and the press
There was widespread support in the press for filibusters' missions. A number of journalists were sympathetic towards filibusters such as John O'Sullivan, Beach at the New York Sun and the New Orleans' L.J.Sigur. of the Delta. All supported Narcisco Lopez's Missions to Cuba. John S. Thrasher contributed articles for the annexation of Cuba in New Orleans' Picayune. Some journalists also enlisted to fight for filibustering missions as Richardson Hardy and John McCann did who both worked for the Cincinnati Nonpareil. The poet Theodore O'Hara was a member of William Walker's expedition to Nicaragua. He worked on the Frankfort Yeoman and the Democratic Rally newspapers. After this, he served in the Confederate army in the American Civil War.