Calcasieu Greys September 2021

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Major Richard W. "Dick" Dowling

He was born in Tuum, Ireland about January 1837

and when his family became impoverished by the Great

Famine, they immigrated to New Orleans. Many of his

family died in a yellow fever epidemic there, but Dowling

survived and became a bartender. He moved to Houston, 

Texas in the late 1850s and he started his own business,

a saloon, and became a successful businessman. He joined

the Confederate Army in 1861 as a first lieutenant in the

Jefferson Davis Guard, Co. F, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery.

After the Battle of Sabine Pass, he was promoted to major and

spent the rest of the war as a recruiter. After the war, he resumed his

business career and expanded into other enterprises, including

oil exploration. He tragically died in the Houston yellow fever

epidemic after personally nursing other victims. He is buried in St.

Vincent's Catholic Cemetery in Houston. The cowardly Houston

city government removed his statue in Herman Park in 2020 and

put it in storage.