This is a list of links to resources that may be useful to your for your small group projects about Dick Dowling. It will be updated throughout the remainder of the semester. If you would like to suggest items for inclusion, email Dr. McDaniel.

Main Online Resources

• NOTE: To access the list of files with names beginning “DD00”, click on the Dropbox link provided to you by email and on OWL-Space.
• Metadata for DD Archive Items (Google Spreadsheets)
• Student Transcriptions of DD Archive Items (Google Docs)
• Houston Public Library Items about Dowling
• Spreadsheet showing which HPL items were referenced in student blog posts
• Posts on the main course blog about our Dick Dowling project

Student blog posts about writers who have talked about Dowling and the Battle:

• Anna Pennybacker (1888)
• John Henry Brown (1893)
• Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis (1897)
• Dudly Goodall Wooten (1899)
• Joseph L. Clark (1939)
• Rupert Norval Richardson (1943)
• T. R. Fehrenbach (1968)
• Seymour V. Connor (1971)
• Joe B. Frantz (1976)
• Sarah Jackson (1974; 1999)
• Archie P. McDonald (1983)
• Ron Stone (1985)
• David G. McComb (1989)
• Archie P. McDonald (2007)

Primary Sources Mentioned in Class

• Arthur Fremantle’s Three Months in the Southern States (1864)
• John B. Magruder’s letter to Governor Frank Lubbock about conscripting slave laborers, from the Google Books 1889 edition of The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, volume 26, part 2, pp. 33-36. (Note: This book may contain other sources of interest to those of you researching the battle.)

Books and Articles

• Andrew Forest Muir, “Dick Dowling and the Battle of Sabine Pass,” in Lone Star Blue and Grey: Essays on Texas in the Civil War, ed. Ralph A. Wooster (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1995), 177-209 (originally published in Civil War History in 1958, and available for download on OWL-Space)
• Edward T. Cotham, Sabine Pass: The Confederacy’s Thermopylae (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004), on reserve at Fondren

Other Links

• City of Houston page on the Dowling statue
• Visit Port Arthur YouTube channel, which includes footage of Dick Dowling Days reenactment (scroll down uploads)
• Sabine Pass Battlefield
• Primary Sources about Texas in the Civil War compiled by the TSHA
• Exhibit page at the Texas State Library about Sabine Pass and Civil War in Texas