14. Roberts, “Fifty Years of Statehood” in Wooten, _A Comprehensive History of Texas_, II, p. 114. 15. Winkler, _Journal of the Secession Convention_, pp. 86-90. 16. _Ibid._, pp. 92-251. 17. “Texas and Texans in the Civil War. 1861-1865” in Wooten, _A Comprehensive History of Texas_, II, pp. 522-26. 18. “Proclamation to the People of Texas,” Apr. 17, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 279, pp. 237-40. “Proclamation to the People of Texas”, Apr. 24, 1861. _Ibid._, pp. 242-43. 19. Ella Lonn, _Foreigners in the Confederacy_ (Chapel Hill: The University of the North Carolina Press, 1940), p. 59, 124. McCulloch to Davis, Mar. 25, 1861. _The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies_ (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901), I, 9, pp. 704-05. Hereafter referred to as _O.R._, and assumed to be Series I unless otherwise indicated. _Idem._ to _idem._ Mar. 31, 1861, _ibid._, p. 705. 20. “Statement of regiments, etc. mustered into the service of the Confederate States,” Sept. 30, 1861, _ibid._, IV, 1, p. 630. 21. Clark to Legislature, Nov. 1, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 279, pp. 355 ff. _Idem._ to Davis, July 28, 1861, Executive Record Book, Governor Edward Clark 1861, No. 80, MSS, p. 97. Texas State Archives. 22. W. W. Heartsill, _Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army_. Bell I. Wiley [ed.] (A Facsimile reproduction of the original.) (Jackson, Tennessee: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1954), p. xv, 2-4, 14 ff, 22-23. 23. _The Southern Confederacy_ (Seguin), Sept. 20, 1861. Clark to Rogers and Felder, May 17, 1861, Executive Record Book No. 80, pp. 70-71. Byrd to McCulloch, Sept. 22, 1861, _O.R._, 4, p. 109. 24. Clark to Baylor, May 13, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 80, p. 63. _Idem._ to Nichols, May 17, 1861, _ibid._, p. 71. _Idem._ to Bee, Aug. 15, 1861, _ibid._, pp. 108-09. 25. _Idem._, to Carothers, Aug. 29, 1861, _ibid._, p. 123. _Idem._ to Walker, Sept. 7, 1861, _ibid._, pp. 127-28. Myers to Minter, Sept. 14, 1861. _O.R._, 4, p. 105. Clark to the “People of Texas”, Aug. 31, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 80, pp. 124-25. 26. Frank Anderson, “Missouri’s Confederate State Capitol at Marshall, Texas” in _The Missouri Historical Review_, XXVII, No. 3, Apr., 1933, pp. 240-43. Clark to Davis, July 28, 1861, Executive Record Book, No. 80, pp. 97-98. Joseph C. McConnell, _The West Texas Frontier_ (Palo Pinto: Texas Legal Bank and Book Co., 1939), II, p. 46. Gammel, _The Laws of Texas_, V, pp. 452-54. Lubbock to Reagan, Dec. 27, 1861, _O.R._, 4, pp. 161-64. _Idem._ to McCulloch, Dec. 24, 1861. Executive Record Book, Governor F. R. Lubbock, 1861 to 1863, No. 81, MSS, p. 60. Texas State Archives.