Texas in the Civil War: A Résumé History

by Allan Coleman Ashcraft

78. Magruder to Gorgas, May 30, 1863, O.R., 26, pt. 2, pp. 24-25.

79. Frank Brown, Annals of Travis County and the City of Austin, Chap. XXIII, pp. 3-4. Typed copy in the Texas State Archives. Report of Military Board, Mar., 1865 in Edmund T. Miller, A Financial History of Texas (Bulletin of the University of Texas, 1916: No. 37), p. 138. Don H. Biggers, German Pioneers in Texas (Fredericksburg, Texas: Press of the Fredericksburg Publishing Co., 1925), pp. 98-99. Roach, Cherokee County, pp. 66-67. Dabney White [ed.], East Texas, Its History and Its Makers (New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1940), II, p. 871; III, p. 1248. Richard D. Steuart, “The Story of the Confederate Colt” in Army Ordinance, XV, No. 86, Sept.-Oct., 1934, p. 90.

80. Richard Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, Richard B. Harwell [ed.] (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1955), pp. 143 ff. Joseph B. James, “Edmund Kirby Smith: Soldier of the South.” Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Florida, 1935, pp. 258-59.

81. Lt. Col. A. J. Fremantle, The Fremantle Diary. Walter Lord [ed.] (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1954), pp. 64-65.

82. Ibid., p. 58.

83. Lubbock to Harris, June 17, 1863, Executive Record Book. Governor F. R. Lubbock, 1861-1863, No. 82, MSS, pp. 112-13. Texas State Archives.

84. Oldham, Memoirs, p. 371.

85. Report of Marshall Conference, Aug. 15, 1863, Executive Record Book No. 82, pp. 129-37. Governors to the People, Aug. 18, 1863, ibid., pp. 137-39.

86. Halleck to Banks, Aug. 6, 1863, O.R., 26, pt. 1, p. 672. Idem. to idem., Aug. 10, 1863, ibid., p. 673. Lincoln to Banks, Aug. 5, 1863 in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, 1894), IX, p. 56. Idem. to Grant, Aug. 9, 1863, ibid., pp. 64-65.

87. Francis R. Sackett, Dick Dowling (Houston: Gulf Publishing Co., 1937), pp. 16-47. Porter, Naval History, pp. 346-47. Report of Magruder, Sept. 10, 1863, O.R.N., 20, pp. 560-61. Andrew Forest Muir, “Dick Dowling and the Battle of Sabine Pass” in Civil War History, IV, No. 4, Dec., 1958, pp. 414 ff.