During the Civil War, he served as a lieutenant colonel of a Louisiana cavalry regiment, was taken prisoner, and then paroled to the home of his brother, a prominent banker in New Jersey. Nixon had moved to Louisiana as a teenager and worked in the clothing business. Reorganized as the New Orleans Daily Crescent in 1851 under the management of John Wesley Crockett (1807-1852), a son Davy Crockett, the paper was purchased in 1854 by New Jersey native James Oscar Nixon (1822-1891). 'Sam' McClure, both formerly of the New Orleans Daily Delta, founded the Daily Crescent, a newspaper best known for its association with the poet Walt Whitman, who co-edited the paper but was fired after a few months because of his antislavery views, and William Walker, the famous filibuster who in the 1850s led several private military expeditions to Central America in an attempt to establish an English-speaking, slaveholding empire. Weekly eds.: Weekly crescent (New Orleans, La.) New Orleans weekly crescent (New Orleans, La.).Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.Louisiana-New Orleans.-fast-(OCoLC)fst01204311.Maddox Dates of publication: 1851-1866 Description: Place of publication: Geographic coverage:

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