Confederados of Spanish Honduras

"My father and a group of friends went to Honduras after the Civil
War, in which he fought all four years in the First Georgia
Cavalry. I have his sword. After Sherman's march through
Georgia, when he burned and destroyed everything in our part of
the state (around Kennesaw Mt. And Marietta), things were very
bad, and this group of young soldiers and their families decided
to go to Honduras. Others went to Brazil." Laura Kolb (Coleman)
Kingsbery, (1884-1971)

Following its defeat in the Southern War for Independence, the South
was in economic ruin. Poverty, lawlessness and fears of an occupying
Union Army caused great anxiety among the Southern people. There
were those who were angry and bitter of the South's loss and others
were on a quest for adventure. For many reasons, Confederate exiles
from across the Southern United States began an exodus to various
countries of Latin America. Among those countries that offered refuge,
freedom, and economic opportunity were Brazil, British Honduras
(Belize), Mexico, Spanish Honduras (The Republic of Honduras), and
Venezuela. The subject of this essay concerns those Confederate
emigrants and refuges of the Republic Of Honduras known also as
Spanish Honduras.

Having previously planted a Confederate colony in Mexico, Major Green
Malcolm of McNairy’s Tennessee Cavalry now planed to set up a
system of plantations, modeled after those in the Mississippi River
Delta, along the rivers of the interior of Spanish Honduras. Organizing
and setting out from Atlanta, Georgia in the Spring of 1867; his colony
of thirty Confederate families, seventy in all, made their way to New
Orleans where they booked passage to Spanish Honduras.