Naw, all of that was much later. That is how California came in on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War was by the KGC. They had infiltrated California and took over all of the State, County and City Governments even the arsenals and treasury vaults before they succeeded from the Union.
Walker arrived La Paz flying the Mexican flag. After about half hour the filibusters took their victims and rose the flag of the self-proclaimed Republic of Lower California. "Colonel" Walker appointed himself as President of the new republic with the follwing speech:
"The Republic of Lower California is declared free, sovereign, and independent quitting since now on of its alliance with Mexico" .
William Walker adopted as a constitution one similar to that in effect in Louisiana, USA, then an pro-slavery constitution.
Three days later, Walker moved to Cabo San Lucas, for he wished to establish there the headquarters of his new government, other historians say, he did because he knew Mexican troops went to La Paz to catch him. Anyway, he took prisoners Colonel Juan ClÃ*maco Rebolledo and Espinosa. Once in Cabo San Lucas (November 8), Walker moved again to Ensenada, (in the present-day State of Baja California Sur) (November 29).
Walker appointed Frederick Emory as his "Secretary of the Interior", and send him to San Diego, California, to get provisions and people to support the cause. In San Diego, Frederick lift a recruitment office under the new flag of the "Republic of Lower California". On December 4, Lieutenant Castillo Negrete and Antonio Melendres with 58 men came from Santo Tomás fighting Walker during eight days, however, both Melendres and Negrete retreated after suffering many deaths.
On January 21, 1854, Walker promulgated a decree, published in the San Diego Herald, on which the republic name was changed to Republic of Sonora with two constituent states: Sonora and Baja California.
1853-1854 William Walker invasion of Baja California and Sonora
