[34]Frost’s History of Mexico.
[35]G. W. Kendall.
[36]Cabet at ses Icariens.
[37]Williams’ Life of Houston.
[38]Scharf’s History of the Confederate States Navy.
[39]Camp Ford, where the Federal prisoners were confined during the war, was situated near Tyler, in Smith County.
[40]The bell used on the Harriet Lane is now in the museum of the Houston (Texas) High School.
[41]Jefferson Davis, in his Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, says of this engagement: “The success of the single company which garrisoned the earthwork at Fort Griffin is without parallel in ancient or modern war.”
[42]Scharf’s History of the Confederate States Navy.
[43]Ireland died March 15, 1896.