18. “Proclamation to the People of Texas,” Apr. 17, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 279, pp. 237-40. “Proclamation to the People of Texas”, Apr. 24, 1861. Ibid., pp. 242-43.
19. Ella Lonn, Foreigners in the Confederacy (Chapel Hill: The University of the North Carolina Press, 1940), p. 59, 124. McCulloch to Davis, Mar. 25, 1861. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901), I, 9, pp. 704-05. Hereafter referred to as O.R., and assumed to be Series I unless otherwise indicated. Idem. to idem. Mar. 31, 1861, ibid., p. 705.
20. “Statement of regiments, etc. mustered into the service of the Confederate States,” Sept. 30, 1861, ibid., IV, 1, p. 630.
21. Clark to Legislature, Nov. 1, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 279, pp. 355 ff. Idem. to Davis, July 28, 1861, Executive Record Book, Governor Edward Clark 1861, No. 80, MSS, p. 97. Texas State Archives.
22. W. W. Heartsill, Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army. Bell I. Wiley [ed.] (A Facsimile reproduction of the original.) (Jackson, Tennessee: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1954), p. xv, 2-4, 14 ff, 22-23.
23. The Southern Confederacy (Seguin), Sept. 20, 1861. Clark to Rogers and Felder, May 17, 1861, Executive Record Book No. 80, pp. 70-71. Byrd to McCulloch, Sept. 22, 1861, O.R., 4, p. 109.
24. Clark to Baylor, May 13, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 80, p. 63. Idem. to Nichols, May 17, 1861, ibid., p. 71. Idem. to Bee, Aug. 15, 1861, ibid., pp. 108-09.
25. Idem., to Carothers, Aug. 29, 1861, ibid., p. 123. Idem. to Walker, Sept. 7, 1861, ibid., pp. 127-28. Myers to Minter, Sept. 14, 1861. O.R., 4, p. 105. Clark to the “People of Texas”, Aug. 31, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 80, pp. 124-25.
26. Frank Anderson, “Missouri’s Confederate State Capitol at Marshall, Texas” in The Missouri Historical Review, XXVII, No. 3, Apr., 1933, pp. 240-43. Clark to Davis, July 28, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 80, pp. 97-98. Joseph C. McConnell, The West Texas Frontier (Palo Pinto: Texas Legal Bank and Book Co., 1939), II, p. 46. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, V, pp. 452-54. Lubbock to Reagan, Dec. 27, 1861, O.R., 4, pp. 161-64. Idem. to McCulloch, Dec. 24, 1861. Executive Record Book, Governor F. R. Lubbock, 1861 to 1863, No. 81, MSS, p. 60. Texas State Archives.
27. Pratt to Hunter, July 1, 1861. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of Rebellion (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912), 16, pp. 829-30. Hereafter referred to as O.R.N. Reports of Stevens, June 12, 1861, ibid., pp. 825-26. Lubbock to McCulloch, Dec. 23, 1861. Executive Record Book, No. 81, pp. 52-53.