Introduction ~ Notes
1. Thomas J. Green, Reply [of] Gen. Thomas J. Green, to the Speech of General Sam Houston, in the Senate of the United States, August 1, 1854, 23-24; Ina Kate Reinhardt, "The Public Career Thomas Jefferson Green in Texas"; Wharton J. Green, Recollections and Reflections, 15-16, 32.
2. Green, Reply [of] Gen. Green, 11, 23-24; Green, Recollections and Reflections, 16; "To the Voters of Warren County, North Carolina," May 28, 1827, Thomas Jefferson Green Papers.
3. For an examination of Green's efforts in New Orleans on behalf of the Texas army, see Marilyn McAdams Sibley, "Thomas Jefferson Green: Recruiter for the Texas Army, 1836," Texas Military History 3:130.
4. Henry S. Foote, Texas and the Texans 2:340.
5. Green to Coleman and Ward, March 11, 1836, John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution 5:49-50 (hereafter cited as PTR).
6. Green to McCall, March 30, 1836, ibid. 5:241-242.
7. "To the Friends of Liberty Throughout the World!" Charles Adams Gulick, Jr., ed., The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar 1:347-349 (hereafter cited as Lamar Papers).
8. Sibley "Thomas Jefferson Green," 135-136.
9. Ibid., 140.
10. "Relations of Scenes and Events Concerning Santa Anna," Gulick. ed., Lamar Papers 1: 525-527.
11. Ibid. 1: 526.
12. Carlos Castañeda, ed., The Mexican Side of the Texas Revolution, 87.
13. Santa Anna to Burnet, June 9, 1836, Jenkins, ed., PTR 7:88-89.
14. For more on the confinement of Santa Anna in Texas, see Margaret Swett Henson's "Politics and the Treatment of the Mexican Prisoners after the Battle of San Jacinto," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94:189-221.
15. Green to Burnet, April 1, 1836, Jenkins, ed., PTR 5:283.
16. Green to Houston, July 30, 1836, ibid. 8:69-70.
17. Green to Rusk, August 1, 1836, ibid. 8:93-96.
18. Green to Austin and Smith, August 28, 1836, Green Papers.
19. Yoakum 2:183-188; Lamar to Burnet, July 17, 1836, Gulick, ed., Lamar Papers 1:418.
20. [Macomb to Morgan,] July 28, 1836, Jenkins, ed., PTR 8:58.
21. H.P.N. Gammel, The Laws of Texas 1:1193-1194.
22. Green, Reply [of] Gen. Green, 49.
23. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston 1:514 (hereafter cited as Houston Writings).
24. Green, Reply [of] Gen. Green, 12-14.
25. "Speech on Thomas Jefferson Green, August 1, 1854," Williams and Barker, eds., Houston Writings 6:87.
26. Gammel, Laws of Texas 1:1188-1192.
27. Anson Jones, Memoranda and Official Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas, 287-291.
28. S.G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads, 9-22.
29. William M. Gouge, The Fiscal History of Texas, 60-61.
30. "Speech on Thomas Jefferson Green," Williams and Barker, eds., Houston Writings 6:87.
31. Green, Reply [of] Gen. Green, 59.
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