The Yankee Invasion of Texas

Notes

notes chapter 1 1. William Watson, Adventures of a Blockade Runner, 20–21; James Daddysman , Matamoros Trade, 18–20; Bill Winsor, Texas in the Confederacy, 82. 2. Bern Anderson, By Sea and by River, 228–29. 3. Pat Kelley, River of Lost Dreams, 45. 4. Tom Lea, King Ranch, vol. 1, 183–86; John Salmon Ford, Rip Ford’s Texas, 463–65; Chauncey D. Stillman, Charles Stillman, 1810–1875, 27; Kelley, River of Lost Dreams, 45. 5. Watson, Adventures of a Blockade Runner, 19–23. 6. Robert L. Kerby, Kirby Smith’s Confederacy, 181; Watson, Adventures of a Blockade Runner, 19. 7. Daddysman, Matamoros Trade, 24–25, 107; Watson, Adventures of a Blockade Runner, 25. 8. Daddysman, Matamoros Trade, 107–109. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid., 107–108; Harry S. Drago, Steamboaters, 110. 11. Watson, Adventures of a Blockade Runner, 16; Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Fremantle Diary, 6. 12. Kerby, Kirby Smith’s Confederacy, 178–79, 182; U.S. War Department, War of the Rebellion, series 1, vol. 9, 674 (hereafter cited as ORA). 13. Lew Wallace, Lew Wallace, 820–21. 14. James A. Irby, “Line of the Rio Grande,” 5; Paul Horgan, Great River, 837; New Orleans Daily True Delta, Mar. 5, 1863, Dec. 16, 1864; New York Herald, Jan. 9, 1865; Daddysman, Matamoros Trade, 20–21. 15. New York Tribune, Feb. 7, 1863. 16. Andrew Jackson Hamilton was born in Alabama in 1815. He had lived in Texas since 1846, holding various political offices. Suspected by some fellow Texans of plotting to overthrow the Confederate state government in Austin, Hamilton fled to Mexico in the summer of 1862. During the Civil War he would be one of the strongest civilian promoters of a Union invasion of Texas (William C. Harris, With Charity for All, 87; Richard Lowe, Texas Overland Expedition of 1863, 16). 17. Washington National Intelligencer, Oct. 18, 1862; New York Tribune, Feb. 7, 1863; Harris, With Charity for All, 90; John L. Waller, Colossal Hamilton of Texas, 36–38, 42–46. 18. Robert W. Delaney, “Matamoros, Port for Texas during the Civil War,” 470, 480. 19. Roy P. Basler, ed., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 8, 164 (hereafter cited as CWAL). 20. Ford, Rip Ford’s Texas, 359; Horgan, Great River, 837; Kevin R. Young, To the Tyrants Never Yield, 150. 21. ORA, series 1, vol. 9, 648; U.S. Navy Department, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, series 1, vol. 20, 201 (hereafter cited as ORN); Ludwell H. Johnson, Red River Campaign, 34. 22. Basler, CWAL, vol. 6, 354–55. 23. Nathaniel Banks was one of the most active of the higher-ranking political generals. Born in Massachusetts in 1816, Banks was elected to various state offices, including governor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Lincoln appointed him major general of volunteers. Serving at various posts in the Virginia theater, he saw some combat against Gen. Thomas J. (“Stonewall”) Jackson. In November 1862 Banks was appointed to head the Department of the Gulf. In July 1863 he captured Port Hudson after the fall of Vicksburg. From September 1863 to April 1864, Banks launched four unsuccessful campaigns in an effort to capture Texas (Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue, 17–18). 24. Basler, CWAL, vol. 6, 364, 374. 25. Lowe, Overland Expedition, 16; Frank H. Smyrl, “Texans in the Union Army, 1861–1865,” 240. 26. Kerby, Kirby Smith’s Confederacy, 186; Basler, CWAL, vol. 5, 357; Harris, With Charity for All, 88–89; Smyrl, “Texans in the Union Army,” 240–41. 27. ORA, series 1, vol. 15, 152; Lowe, Overland Expedition, 19; Smyrl, “Texans in the Union Army,” 236–37. 28. Basler, CWAL, vol. 6, 354–55; Harris, With Charity for All, 92–93. 29. ORA, series 1, vol. 15, pt. 2, 590; Kurt Hackemer, “Strategic Dilemma,” 193–94. 30. Kerby, Kirby Smith’s Confederacy, 187; James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 683; Basler, CWAL, vol. 6, 364. 31. ORA, series 1, vol. 26, pt. 1, 672–73. 32. Hackemer, “Strategic Dilemma,” 196; Rowena Reed, Combined Operations in the Civil War, 323. 33. Johnson, Red River Campaign, 41; Kerby, Kirby Smith’s Confederacy, 187–88; ORA, series 1, vol. 26, pt. 1, 673. 34. ORA, series 1, vol. 26, pt. 1, 673, 682–83, 697. 35. Ibid., 287–90, 311–12; T. R. Fehrenbach, Lone Star, 370; Andrew F. Muir, “Dick Dowling and the Battle of Sabine Pass,” 193–94. 36. ORA...