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Histories of the Texas Navy
Borden, G. & T. H., Rules, Regulations, and Instructions
for the
Naval
Service of the Republic of Texas, Columbia, 1837
Cussler, Clive, The Sea Hunters, P.63-75, Simon &
Schuster, New York, New York,
1996, 364p.
Dawson, Frederick, Petition of Frederick Dawson, James Schott,
and Elisha
Dana
Whitney, Praying Payment for Certain Vessels, Etc., Furnished Texas and
Given Up by
Texas to the U.S. on the Annexation of Texas, Senate, 30th Congress,
first session,
Misc. No. 27, Washington Government Printing Office, 1848, 6p.
Devereaux, Linda Ericson, The Texas Navy, Ericson Books,
Nacogdoches,
Texas, 1983
Dienst, Dr. Alexander, The Navy of the
Republic of Texas, 1835-1845 , privately
published, Temple, Texas, Quarterly of the Texas State Historical
Association
(January-April 1909), 165-203p.; reprint, Old Army Press, Fort Collins,
Colorado, 1987
Douglas, Claude L, Thunder on the Gulf,
or, The Story of the Texas Navy, Turner
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Eller, E. M., Introduction, The Texas Navy, Naval History
Division, Department of
the Navy,
Washington, D.C., 1968, 40p.
Fischer, Ernest G., Robert Potter,
Founder of the Texas Navy, Pelican Publishing
Company, Gretna, Louisiana, 1976, 258p.
Francaviglia, Richard V., From Sail to Steam, Four
Centuries of Texas Maritime
History
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Guthrie, Keith, Texas Forgotten Ports, 3 volumes, Carnegie
Institution,
Washington,
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Hill, Jim Dan, The Texas Navy, in
Forgotten Battles and Shirtsleeve Diplomacy,
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Texas,
1987, 224p.
Koury, Michael J., Arms for Texas, A Study of the
Weapons of the Republic of Texas,
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by Joseph Hefter, The Old Army Press, Fort Collins, Colorado,
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Meed, Douglas V., The Fighting Texas Navy, Republic of
Texas Press, 2001, 250p.
Moore, Commodore Edwin W., T.N., To The
People of Texas, An Appeal: In Vindication
of his Conduct of the Navy, 1843, Eugene C. Barker Library, The
University of
Texas, Austin, Texas, 204p.
Robinson, Admiral Samuel Murray, USN, retired, A Brief History
of the Texas Navies,
Sons of the
Republic of Texas, Houston, Texas, 1961, 29p.
Shearer, Ernest C., Robert Potter: Remarkable North Carolinian
and Texan, 1951,
University of
Houston Press, Houston, Texas
Shelton, Bob, and Al Luckenbach, Uniform Buttons of the
Republic of Texas, Henington
Publishing,
Wolfe City, Texas, 1986, 86p.
Wells, Commander Tom Henderson, USN,
retired, Commodore Moore & The Texas
Navy, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1960, second
printing 1988, 218p.
Texas Navy Manuscripts, Collections and
Pamphlets
Adair, A. Garland, “Navy Buttons of the Lone Star State;
Texas’ Naval History”,
HOBBIES, LI
(July 1946), 28-29p.
Adair, A. Garland, The Navy of the Republic of Texas,
Information Circular Number 32,
Texas Memorial
Museum, Austin, Texas, November 1943, 7p.
Barnard, T., Together with his Controversy with General Sam
Houston, President of the
Republic of
Texas, Washington, 1847, 32p.
Barnard, T., Proclamation of President Sam Houston; Veto of
President Anson Jones,
1847, Washington, D.C.
Congressional Library, Documents Relative to the Dismissal of
Post-Captain Edwin Ward
Moore from
the Texian Navy consisting of E. W. Moore in 1843; the Argument of
the Hon.
Thomas Johnson, Judge-Advocate; Memorial to the Officers of the Late
Texas Navy to
the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C.: [n. pub.], 1850
Congressional Library, Journals of the House of
Representatives, Appendixes,
Washington,
Texas, 1843-1845
Daniel, James M., The Ships of the Texas Navy: A List Compiled
by James M. Daniel,
San Jacinto
Museum of History Association, 1948, 4p.
Dienst, Dr. Alexander, Tennison’s Journal (as a Midshipman
and Lieutenant, T.N.), Dr.
Alexander
Dienst Collection, University of Texas Library, Austin, Texas
Fuller, George W., “Sketch of the Texas Navy”, Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, 1909
Moore, Commodore Edwin W., T.N., A Brief
Synopsis of the Doings of the Texas Navy,
Under The Command of Commodore E. W. Moore; Together With His
Controversy
with General Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas,
Washington, D.C.,
T. Barnard, 1847, 32p.
Moore, Commodore Edwin W., T.N., Documents
relative to the Dismissal of Post-Captain
Edwin W. Moore from the Texas Navy, Washington, D.C., 1843, 29p.
Moore, Commodore Edwin W., T.N., Reply to
the Pamphlet, by Commanders Buchanan,
Dupont, & Magruder. Of the United States Navy, Addressed to the
House of
Representatives, in Relation to the Officers of the Late Texas Navy,
Washington,
D.C. ?, 1850, 23p.
Naval Records and Library, Archives Section, Navy
Department, Washington, D.C.
Neu, C. T., “The Case of the Brig Pocket”, Quarterly of the
Texas State Historical
Association
12, (April 1909), 276-295pp.
Pratt, Willis W., ed., Galveston Island or A Few Months Off the
Coast of Texas: The
Journal of
Francis Sheridan, 1839-1840, The University of Texas Press, Austin,
Texas, 1954
Orlebeke, Carolyn McWhirter, The Love Affair between the
Daughters of the Republic
of Texas
and the Texian Navy: The End of a Myth, 18p., 1996
Rosenberg Library, John Grant Tod Papers (74-0018), (Texas
Navy Purchasing Agent),
Galveston,
Texas
Rosenberg Library, Samuel May Williams Papers, Galveston,
Texas
Rosenberg Library, Texas Navy and Battle of Galveston:
Bibliography, 1971, Galveston,
Texas, 17p.
Rosenberg Library, Unpublished MSS. Collection, Galveston,
Texas
Texas State Archives, A Brief Synopsis of the Doings of the
Texas Navy, Under
Command of
Commodore E. W. Moore; Account Book of the Austin, 1841-1843,
Texas State
Library, Austin, Texas
Texas State Archives, E. W. Moore, Miscellaneous File,
Texas State Library, Austin,
Texas
Texas State Archives, Journals of the House of Representatives,
Republic of Texas,
Printed as
were the Journals of the Senate, 1837-1845
Texas State Archives, Navy Papers, Texas State Library,
Austin, Texas
Walke, Alfred, T.N., Midshipman’s Journal of Midshipmen,
Texas State Library, Austin,
Texas
Wharton, Clarence R., Wharton Collection, Houston, Texas
(Clarence R.
Wharton’s private collection of old Newspapers, rare books,
transcriptions
from original materials elsewhere and Unpublished MSS)
General Texas Histories with Texas Navy
References
Author unknown, Texas in 1837, University of Texas Press,
Austin, Texas, second
paperback
printing, 1988, 232p.
Barker, Eugene C., Mexico and Texas, 1821-1835, 1928,
Dallas, Texas, 397-403p., 460p.
Fehrenbach, T. R., Lone Star, A History
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Filisola, General Vincente, Memoirs for the History of the War
in Texas, (1848
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Wallace Woolsey, Eakin Press, Austin, Texas, 1985
Fluth, Alice F., Indianola, Early Gateway to Texas, M.A.
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Texas Navy Artwork
Fields, F. T., Texas Sketchbook, A Collection of Historical
Stories From the Humble
Way,
revised edition, illustrations by E. M. “Buck” Schiwetz, Humble Oil
&
Refining
Company, 1962, 104p.
Gracy, Davis B. II and Jean Carefoot, Ships
of the Texas Navy, A Limited Edition
Portfolio of Fine Prints, (500 copies), illustrations Fred Toler,
Presidial Press,
Austin, Texas, 1978, 9 prints
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Texas, (6 Plates of Uniforms), Old Army
Press, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1974
Marshall, Bruce, Uniforms of the Republic of Texas, And The Men
Who Wore Them,
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, Pennsylvania, 1999, 83p.
Magazine Articles on the Texas Navy
Arnold, J. Barto III and Wayne Gromquist, “The Survey for the
Zavala, a Steam Warship
of the
Republic of Texas”, Proceedings from the Conference on Historical and
Underwater
Archaeology edited by Toni L. Carrell, Tucson, Arizona, 1900,
105-109pp.
Adams, Ephriam Douglass, ed., “British Correspondence Concerning
Texas”, 15, Texas
Historical
Quarterly, 1911, 201p.
Carter, Robert Foster, “The Texan Navy”, U. S. Naval Institute
Proceedings 59,
No. 365, 1935,
1032-1038p.
Clopper, A. M., “The Clopper Correspondence, 1834-1838”, Texas
Historical
Association
Quarterly, 1910, 128p.
Cox, C. C., “Reminiscences of C. C. Cox, I”, Texas
Historical Association Quarterly,
October 1902,
128p.
Denham, James M., “Charles E. Hawkins: Sailor of Three
Republics”, Gulf Coast
Historical
Review, 5, number 2 (Spring 1990), 91-103pp.
Denham, James M., “New Orleans, Maritime Commerce, and the Texas
War for
Independence,
1836”, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, January 1994, 97p.
Dienst, Dr. Alexander, “The Navy of the Republic of Texas, Part
I”, Quarterly of the
Texas State
Historical Association, 12, (1908-January 1909), 165p.
Dienst, Dr. Alexander, “The Navy of the Republic of Texas, Part
II”, Quarterly of the
Texas State
Historical Association, 12 (April 1909), 249p.
Dienst, Dr. Alexander, “The Navy of the Republic of Texas, Part
III”, Quarterly of
the Texas
State Historical Association, 13, July 1909, 1-?p.
Dienst, Dr. Alexander, “The Navy of the Republic of Texas, Part
IV”, Quarterly of the
Texas State
Historical Association, October 1909, 1-?p.
Ellenberger, Matthew, “Illuminating the Lesser Lights: Notes on
the Life of Albert
Clinton
Horton”, Southwestern Historical Quarterly,______ 1984, 354p.
Fuller, George F., “Sketch of the Texas Navy”, Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, VII,
January 1904,
223-234p.
Harris, George F., “History of the Texas Navy”, Southwestern
Historical Quarterly,
LXIII, April
1960, 572-579p.
Haugh, George F., Editor, “History of the Texas Navy”, Southwestern
Historical
Quarterly,
LXIII, April 1960. 572-579p.
Haugh, George F., “The Texas Navy at New York”, 64?, Southwestern
Historical
Quarterly,
January 1961, 377p.
Hutton, Margaret, “The Houston-Fisher Controversy”, Southwestern
Historical
Quarterly,
Vol. LXXVI, July, 1972, 38-57p.
Jordan, Jonathan W., “Lone Star Republic’s Navy”, Autumn
1999, The Quarterly
Journal of
the Military History, pp. 28-37
McKinney, Bobby J., “Excavated Military Relics of the Texas
Revolution and the
Republic of
Texas, 1836-1846”, Military Collector & Historian, Volume
51,
Number 3, Fall
1999
Moore, MGen Marc A., USMC, retired, “Marines of the Texas
Republic”, Marine
Corps
Gazette, August 1978, 28-34p.
Neu, C. T., “The Case of the Brig Pocket”, 12, Texas
Historical Association Quarterly,
April 1909,
276p.
Nichols, Ruth G., “Samuel May Williams”, 56, Southwestern
Historical Quarterly,
October 1952
Scott, Bess, “Texians on the High Seas”, Texas Highways
Magazine, February, 1983,
14-19p.
Schultz, Charles R., (Book Review) “Ships of the Texas Navy”
(by Fred Toler, David B.
Gracy II and
Jean Carefoot), 83, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 1979,
311-313p.
Steen, Ralph W., “Analysis of the Work of the General Council of
Texas, 1835-1836”,
42, Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, July 1938, 28p.
Sullivan, David M., “The Republic of Texas Marine Corps”, Royal
Marines Historical
Society,
Volume XXII, No. 1, Summer 1997
Sullivan, David M., “The Republic of Texas Marine Corps”, Military
Collector &
Historian,
Vol. XLVII, No. 1, Spring 1996, Washington, D.C., 26-31p.
Vazquez, Josefina Zoraida, “The Texas Question in Mexican
Politics, 1836-1845”, 89,
Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, ______1985, 309p.
Wilson, James E., “Notes on Commercial Relations Between New
Orleans and Texas
Ports,
1838-1839”, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 34 (October
1930), 91-105p.
Winston, James E., “New Orleans and the Texas Revolution”, Louisiana
Historical
Quarterly,
10, July 1927, 317-354pp.
Winston, James E., “Notes on Commercial Relations Between New
Orleans and Texas
Ports,
1838-1839”, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 34, October
1930, 91-105pp.
Winston, Robert Watson, “Robert Potter: Tar Heel and Texas Dare
Devil”, South
Atlantic
Quarterly, 29 (1930), 140-143p.
Old Texas School Text Books
Barker, Eugene C., Charles S. Potts, Charles Ramsdell, A School
History of Texas,
Row, Peterson
& Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1912, 384p., 179-180p.
Pennybacker, Mrs. Anna J. Hardwicke, A New History of Texas for
Schools, Also for
General
Reading and for Teachers Preparing Themselves for Examination, revised
edition,
Copyright 1825 by Anna J. Pennybacker, Publisher Mrs. Percy V.
Pennybacker,
Austin, Texas, 410p., 172-173p.
Children’s Novels on the Texas Navy
Townsend, Tom, Fair Wind to Glory, first edition, Eakin
Press, Austin, Texas, 1994, 155p.
Reynolds, Patrick M., Texas Lore – Rent-a-Navy,
(cartoon), The Dallas Morning
News, January
2, 1994 (Also listed in newspaper section above.)
Texas Navy Novels
Roark, Garland, Star in the Rigging: A Novel of the Texas Navy,
Doubleday & Company,
Garden City,
New York, 1954, 345p.
Maps and Charts
The Coast of Texas, London: Hydrographic Office, the
Admiralty, 20 August 1844.
(photostat),
Eugene C. Baker Library, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Contours of Discovery. Printed Maps Delineating the
Texas and Southwestern Chapters
in
Cartographic History of North America, 1513-1930, The Texas State
Historical
Association in
cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History, University
of Texas at
Austin, 22 maps (17” X 27”), Text and Title, same name as above,
Austin, Texas
1981, 68 pp.
Newspaper Articles on the Texas Navy
Allen, Winnie, “Texas Navy: Two Youths in that Service have Left
Us a Thrilling Tale of
Stirring
Scenes at Sea”, unnamed newspaper, March 13, 1927
Ashby, Lynn, “Texas Navy cheer”, The Houston Post,
January 1, 1975
Ashby, Lynn, “Campeche crisis”, The Houston Post, May
16, 1975
Ashby, Lynn, “Sailing to victory”, The Houston Post,
May 17, 1975
Ashby, Lynn, “Ahoy, podnuh!”, The Houston Post, August
9, 1978
Ashby, Lynn, “Dastardly deed foiled by conscience”, The
Houston Post, August 10, 1978
Ashby, Lynn, “Is the Zavala really buried there?”, The
Houston Post, November 21, 1986
Ashby, Lynn, “Ships that pass in history’s night”, The
Houston Post, January 23, 1987
Barnette, Mic, “Texas Navy docks in Galveston”, The Houston
Chronicle, September 17,
1994
Bell, T. E., “The Texas Navy”, The Houston Chronicle
Magazine, May 11, 1986, p. 8-13
Biffle, Kent, “Texas Marine tale is filled with surprises”, The
Dallas Morning News,
February 16,
1997
Biffle, Kent, “Texas Republic troops got fine fighting duds”, The
Dallas Morning News,
January 31,
1999
Biffle, Kent, “Historian finds Sam Houston less than heroic”, The
Dallas Morning News,
January 16,
2000
Biffle, Kent, “History buffs stand up for Sam Houston”, The
Dallas Morning News,
February 20,
2000
Biffle, Kent, “President’s good looks can deceive”, The
Dallas Morning News,
February 27,
2000
Biffle, Kent, “’Marque’ let sailors vent greed in gulf”, The
Dallas Morning News,
April 4, 1999
Biffle, Kent, “Opium was on Houston’s grocery list”, The
Dallas Morning News,
September 12,
1999
Biffle, Kent, “Texas Navy savored only fleeting fame”, The
Dallas Morning News,
February 21,
1999
Caulfield, Tom, “Reading for Fun – Sam Houston Is
‘Villain’ in This Texas Navy Book”
(Book Review
on the paperback printing of Commodore Moore and the Texas
Navy by
Commander Tom Henderson Wells, USN, retired), newspaper unknown,
circa 1988
Olafson, Steve, “Cannon identified as only relic left from Texas
Navy”, The Houston
Post,
March 21, 1982
Pryzant, Connie, “On the Button” (book by Bob Shelton and Al
Luckenbach), The Dallas
Morning
News, June 30, 1986
Reynolds, Patrick M., “Texas Lore – Rent-a-Navy”, (cartoon),
The Dallas Morning
News,
January 2, 1994
Szilagyi, Pete, “Warship excavation planned in Galveston –
Texas Navy vessel lies
beneath
parking lot”, Austin American-Statesman, October 5, 1988
Letters from Tom Jones Correspondence
Texas State Library, Texas Navy Papers, dated September 2, 1987
RED LETTERING denotes
excellent Texas Navy research material.
BLUE LETTERING denotes above average Texas Navy
research material.
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