Dear List, I'm a new member and recently posted my first genealogical inquiries on this list. Today, however, I'd like to pursue an interest which is as much historical as it is genealogical. MY GGF, Capt. William E. Rogers of Sabine Pass and later Beaumont, was an active steamboatman in that era, liscensed to pilot on the Neches and Sabine rivers. He began his career before the Civil War and was detached from Spaight's Rifles during the conflict as more valuable to the Confederate cause working on the rivers than in uniform. Family tradition has it that among these duties was blockade running, perhaps in small craft to ocean steamers waiting offshore. Among the civilian craft he served on were the Doctor Massey, Florelda, Sunflower, Mary Falvey, Orleans, Uncle Ben, Aegian, Flora, Pelican State, and Emory on river and coastwise service. Moving down a generation, out of the river steamboat era, my paternal grandfather, Green Berry Moore, had - in partnership with a Lou Bettis - a small fleet of tugs or coastwise craft based in Orange late in the 19th century. Both he and I believe Mr. Bettis were drowned (separately or together I don't know) in a hurricane or severe storm in 1897. Is there anyone else out there with an interest in and /or information on the steamboating and early coastwise boating era of SE Texas? I'd be happy to share the modest information I have. [Cross-posting to Jefferson Co. List.] Thank you, Roger Moore Houston, Texas