The military escort was led by West Point graduate and New York-native Hugh McLeod and included a company of artillery. New Orleans-based journalist George Wilkins Kendall of the Picayune and English jurist Thomas Falconer also accompanied the expedition and wrote first-hand accounts afterwards.
The military escort was commanded by Hugh McLeod, a West Point graduate from New York, and included an artillery company. George Wilkins Kendall, a journalist based in New Orleans, and Thomas Falconer, an English jurist, also accompanied the expedition and documented their experiences firsthand.