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Ahlstrom, Richard Mather. Texas Civil War Artifacts: A Photographic Guide to the Physical Culture of Texas Civil War Soldiers. Denton, Tex: University of North Texas Press, 2008.

Ashcraft, Allan C. “Fort Brown, Texas, in 1861.” Texas Military History 3 (1963).

———. “Texas in the Confederacy: Military Installations, Economy and People.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 83, no. 4 (April 1980): 427–28. doi:Book Review.

———. “The Union Occupation of the Lower Rio Grande Valley in the Civil War.” Texas Military History 8, no. 4 (1970).

Bell, Andrew Mcllwaine. “Trans-Mississippi Miasmas: How Malaria & Yellow Fever Shaped the Course of the Civil War in the Confederacy’s Western Theater.” East Texas Historical Journal 48, no. 2 (2009): 3–13. doi:Article.

Bell, Walter F. “Civil War Texas: A Review of the Historical Literature.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 109, no. 2 (October 2005): 205–32. doi:Article.

Case, Robert. “La Frontera Texana Y Los Movimientos De Insurrection En Mexico - 1850-1900.” Historia Mexicana 30, no. 3 (January 1981): 415–52. doi:Article.

Cerutti, Marío, and Miguel González Quiroga. “Guerra Y Comercio En Torno Al Rio Bravo (1855-1867). Linea Fronteriza, Espacio Economico Comun. (spanish).” Historia Mexicana 40, no. 2 (October 1990): 217–97. doi:Article.

Clendenen, Clarence C. Blood on the Border; the United States Army and the Mexican Irregulars. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

———. “Mexican Unionists: A Forgotten Incident of the War Between States.” New Mexico Historical Review 39, no. 1 (Winter1964 1964): 32–39. doi:Article.

Cohen, Barry M. “The Texas-Mexico Border, 1858-1867.” Texana 6 (1968).

Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm; Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. The Norton Library, N334. New York: W. W. Norton, 1966.

Cotham, Edward T. Sabine Pass: The Confederacy’s Thermopylae. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series, no. 7. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.

Cotham, Edward T. Jr. “The Battle of Sabine Pass.” North & South: The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society 8, no. 6 (November 2005): 24–35. doi:Article.

Da Camara, Kathleen. Laredo on the Rio Grande. San Antonio, Tex.: Naylor Co., 1949.

Daddysman, James W. The Matamoros Trade: Confederate Commerce, Diplomacy, and Intrigue. Newark : London: University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, 1984.

Daddysman, Jim. “British Neutrality and the Matamoros Trade: A Step Toward Anglo-American Rapprochement.” Journal of the West Virginia Historical Association 9, no. 1 (January 1985): 1–12. doi:Article.

Delaney, Robert W. “Matamoros, Port for Texas during the Civil War.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 58, no. 4 (April 1, 1955): 473–87.

Elliott, Claude. “Union Sentiment in Texas 1861-1865.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 50, no. 4 (April 1, 1947): 449–77.

Ellis, L. Tuffly. “Maritime Commerce on the Far Western Gulf, 1861 - 1865.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 77, no. 2 (October 1, 1973): 167–226.

Ford, John Salmon. Rip Ford’s Texas. Edited by Stephen B. Oates. Personal Narratives of the West. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963.

Frazier, Donald S. Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863. Buffalo Gap, TX: State House Press Book, 2009.

Gentry, Judy. “Confederates and Cotton in East Texas.” East Texas Historical Journal 49, no. 1 (Winter2010 2010): 20–39. doi:Article.

Goldfinch, Charles William. Juan N. Cortina, 1824-1892: A Re-Appraisal. Chicago, 1949.

Goldfinch, Charles William, and J. T. Canales. Juan N. Cortina: Two Interpretations. The Mexican American. New York: Arno Press, 1974.

González Quiroga, Miguel A. “Trabajadores Mexicanos En Texas (1850-1865): Los Carreteros Y El Transporte De Carga. (spanish).” Siglo XIX: Cuadernos de Historia 3, no. 9 (July 1994): 51–81. doi:Article.

Hardy, William E. “South of the Border: Ulysses S. Grant and the French Intervention.” Civil War History 54, no. 1 (March 2008): 63–86. doi:Article.

Hawkins III, A. W. R. “‘the Most Extraordinary Feat of the War’.” Civil War Times 45, no. 6 (August 2006): 36–43. doi:Article.

Henderson, Harry McCorry. Texas in the Confederacy. San Antonio: Naylor Co, 1955.

Hinojosa, Gilberto Miguel. A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1755-1870. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1983.

Howell, Kenneth Wayne. The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War. Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, 2009.

Hughes, W. J. Rebellious Ranger; Rip Ford and the Old Southwest. 1st ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.

Hunt, Jeffrey Wm. The Last Battle of the Civil War: Palmetto Ranch. 1st ed. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series, no. 4. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Irby, James A. Backdoor at Bagdad: The Civil War on the Rio Grande. Southwestern Studies ; Monograph No. 53. El Paso: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1977.

———. Line of the Rio Grande: War and Trade on the Confederatefrontier 1861-1865, 1969.

Ivins, Ann Caraway. “Dick Dowling and the Battle of Sabine Pass.” Irish Sword: Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland 23, no. 91 (Summer2002 2002): 53–68. doi:Article.

Jewett, Clayton E. Texas in the Confederacy an Experiment in Nation Building. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.
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Kearney, Milo. Boom and Bust: The Historical Cycles of Matamoros and Brownsville. 1st ed. Austin, Tex: Eakin Press, 1991.

———. Border Cuates: A History of the U.S.-Mexican Twin Cities. 1st ed. Austin, Tex: Eakin Press, 1995.

Kiel, Frank Wilson. “Treue Der Union: Myths, Misrepresentations, and Misinterpretations.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 115, no. 3 (January 2012): 282–92. doi:Article.

Lang, Andrew. “The Bass Grays: An Economic, Social, and Demographic Profile of Company D, Seventh Texas Infantry.” East Texas Historical Journal 49, no. 1 (Winter2010 2010): 72–94. doi:Article.

Lardas, Mark N. “Invasion at Sabine Pass.” Military Heritage 3, no. 6 (June 2002): 76–81. doi:Article.

Larios, Avila. “Brownsville-Matamoros: Confederate Lifeline.” Mid-America 60 (1958).

Leiker, James N. Racial Borders: Black Soldiers Along the Rio Grande. 1st ed. South Texas Regional Studies, no. 1. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

Mahoney, M. H. Mexico and the Confederacy, 1860-1867. San Francisco: Austin & Winfield, Publishers, 1998.

Maroney, James C. “Sabine Pass: The Confederacy’s Thermopylae.” East Texas Historical Journal 43, no. 2 (September 2005): 88. doi:Book Review.

Marten, James. Texas Divided: Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

———. “True to the Union: Texans in the U.S. Army.” North & South: The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society 3, no. November (1999): 79–87.

Marvel, William. “Last Hurrah at Palmetto Ranch.” Civil War Times 44, no. 6 (January 2006): 66–73. doi:Article.

McAllen Amberson, Mary Margaret, James A. McAllen and Margaret H. McAllen, I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant, Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Commission, 2003.

McArthur, Henry Sheldon. “A Yank at Sabine Pass.” Civil War Times Illustrated 12, no. 8 (August 1973): 38–43. doi:Article.

McCormack, John F. Jr. “Sabine Pass.” Civil War Times Illustrated 12, no. 8 (August 1973): 4. doi:Article.

Meiners, Fredericka. “The Texas Border Cotton Trade, 1862-1863.” Civil War History 23, no. 4 (December 1977): 293–306. doi:Article.

Mendoza, Alexander. “‘For Our Own Best Interests ’: Nineteenth-Century Laredo Tejanos, Military Service, and the Development of American Nationalism.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 115, no. 2 (October 2011): 124–52.

MENDOZA, ALEXANDER. “‘For Our Own Best Interests ’: Nineteenth-Century Laredo Tejanos, Military Service, and the Development of American Nationalism.,” October 2011.
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Monaghan, Jay. Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Moneyhon, Carl, and Bobby Roberts. Portrait of Conflict: A Photographic History of Texas in the Civil War. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998.

Muir, Andrew Forest. “Dick Dowling and the Battle of Sabine Pass.” Civil War History 4, no. 4 (December 1958): 399–428. doi:Article.

Nofi, Albert A. “Incidents of War.” North & South: The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society 11, no. 5 (October 2009): 9–11. doi:Article.

O’Donnell, Patrick D. “Dick Dowling and the Battle of Sabine Pass (2): The ‘Thermopylae’ of Lieutenant Dick Dowling.” Irish Sword: Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland 23, no. 91 (Summer2002 2002): 69–86. doi:Article.

O’Donnell-Rosales, John. Hispanic Confederates. Baltimore, Md: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co, 1998.

Oates, Stephen B. Confederate Cavalry West of the River. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961.

———. “Confederate Cavalrymen of the Trans-Mississippi.” Civil War History 7, no. 1 (March 1961): 13–19. doi:Article.

———. “Texas Under the Secessionists.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 67, no. 2 (October 1, 1963): 167–212.

———. Visions of Glory, Texans on the Southwestern Frontier. 1st ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Petras, James. “NGOs: In the Service of Imperialism.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 29, no. 4 (December 1999): 429.

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Robertson, Robert J. “Sabine Pass: The Confederacy’s Thermopylae.” Journal of Southern History 72, no. 1 (February 2006): 192–93. doi:Book Review.

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Rutherford, Phillip R. “Six Guns Against the Fleet.” Civil War Times Illustrated, no. 5 (May 1990): 28. doi:Article.

Sacher, John M. “Sabine Pass: The Confederacy’s Thermopylae.” Louisiana History 47, no. 2 (April 2006): 240–42. doi:Book Review.

Sandefer, H. L., and Archie P. McDonald. “Sabine Pass: David and Goliath.” Texana 7, no. 3 (June 1969): 177–88. doi:Article.

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Sibley, Marilyn McAdams. “Charles Stillman: A Case Study of Entrepreneurship on the Rio Grande, 1861 - 1865.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 77, no. 2 (October 1, 1973): 227–40.

Smith, Mitchell. “The ‘Neutral’ Matamoros Trade, 1861-1865.” Southwest Review 37 (1952): 319–24.

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———. “Mutiny and Desertion on the Rio Grande: The Strange Saga of Captain Adrian J. Vidal.” Military History of Texas and the Southwest 11, no. 3 (1975).

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Tucker, Phillip Thomas. The Final Fury: Palmito Ranch, the Last Battle of the Civil War. 1st ed. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001.

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———. “Cotton on the Border, 1861-1865.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 73, no. 4 (April 1, 1970): 456–77.

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Valdez, Joyce. “Hispanic Soldiers Played a Notable Role in the Civil War.” Hispanic 14, no. 5 (May 2001): 84. doi:Article.

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Wettemann Jr., Robert P. “Sabine Pass: The Confederacy’s Thermoplyae.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 109, no. 3 (January 2006): 411–12. doi:Book Review.

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Winsor, Bill. Texas in the Confederacy: Military Installations, Economy, and People. Hillsboro, Tex: Hill Jr. College Press, 1978.

Woodman, Lyman L. Cortina, Rogue of the Rio Grande. San Antonio: Naylor, 1950.

Wooster, Ralph A. Texas and Texans in the Civil War. 1st ed. Austin, Tex: Eakin Press, 1995.

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