de la Harpe's history http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbfr&fileName=0009//rbfr0009.db&recNum=92&itemLink=r%3Fintldl%2Fascfrbib%3A%40field%28NUMBER%2B%40od1%28rbfr%2B0009_0021%29%29&linkText=0


deSHIP ISLAND BOOK WITH ROSTERS https://books.google.com/books?id=SztpdECcU3IC&pg=PT212&lpg=PT212&dq=ship+island+roster&source=bl&ots=SBODID3XG4&sig=zFro74iI1vvVqk5wJUfZSyZuIJI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7oL-37MHLAhUMKiYKHYnXCMwQ6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=ship%20island%20roster&f=false

DAUPHIN ISLAND LINKS
http://sha.org/wp-content/uploads/files/sha/files_2014/22438.pdf

http://core.tdar.org/project/380882/port-dauphin-1mb221-mobile-county-alabama

navigating the mouth of the Mississippi  https://books.google.com/books?id=tMLYeSdBsKgC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22dauphin+island%22+lightering&source=bl&ots=9P35b21jjv&sig=Bplv4C6emrltp_jM0DIIBuWRR9w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyrpaz7bzLAhVEMyYKHcebDvsQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%22dauphin%20island%22%20lightering&f=false

silting of the ship channel after Civil War https://books.google.com/books?id=mXkgB--FujIC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=%22dauphin+island%22+lightering&source=bl&ots=dDq15Yf6RF&sig=rsIWsg6p-N_cXudZuLPUW_F1xHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyrpaz7bzLAhVEMyYKHcebDvsQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=%22dauphin%20island%22%20lightering&f=false

status of Mobile docks circa 1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=mXkgB--FujIC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=%22dauphin+island%22+lightering&source=bl&ots=dDq15Yf6RF&sig=rsIWsg6p-N_cXudZuLPUW_F1xHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyrpaz7bzLAhVEMyYKHcebDvsQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=%22dauphin%20island%22%20lightering&f=false

STATUS OF LOWER ANCHORAGE 1890 https://books.google.com/books?id=N5Q3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1412&lpg=PA1412&dq=%22dauphin+island%22+lightering&source=bl&ots=cKJUv_g8sO&sig=uSR4jkQmQVrAkeuB3mubDdHP__U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyrpaz7bzLAhVEMyYKHcebDvsQ6AEIMjAG#v=onepage&q=%22dauphin%20island%22%20lightering&f=false

STORM IN MOBILE BAY 1860 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LA-OLD-NEWS/2007-01/1170110737

settlement of the gold country by European and American pioneers. Ball, Dave (Florida State University/Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Inc.) [36] THE IRONCLAD PHOENIX AND THE CONFEDERATE OBSTRUCTIONS AT MOBILE BAY During the American Civil War a series of obstructions were erected near Choctaw Point in upper Mobile Bay, Alabama. These obstructions incorporated wooden pilings, as well as sunken boats, barges, and flats, filled with brick and rubble, to block the Union Navy from taking the city of Mobile by water. Rediscovered in 1984 during a harbor improvement project survey for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, these obstructions were nominated to the National Register of Historic Places and given Alabama State Historic Site number 1Mb28, in 1985. Among the vessels which lie within these obstructions is Phoenix, one of the larger and more unique Confederate ironclads built during the War. This paper will present an analysis of information which was obtained during a 1993 archaeological survey of the vessel Phoenix. Included in the discussion is an historical sketch, and an examination of some of the defensive measures which were implemented at Mobile during the War.