Colonel William Logan Crittenden (1823–1851) was a United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War and later accompanied Narciso López's 1851 filibustering Lopez Expedition in Cuba.

[1] Crittenden attended the Military Academy at West Point, and after graduation, served in the Mexican War.

After the war, he resigned his commission and, in 1851, joined López's expedition to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule.

Upon their arrival, however, they found little support among the local Cuban population and López traveled inland, leaving Crittenden in command of a force of 100 men.

Spanish forces quickly surrounded Crittenden's troops, who desperately tried to escape the island in four small fishing boats.