CALCASIEU GREYS, September, 2017

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CONFEDERATE IMAGE OF THE MONTH

Major Richard W. "Dick" Dowling, hero of the Battle
of Sabine Pass, Texas, Sept. 8, 1863. He and the his
fellow heroes of the Jefferson Davis Guard, Co. F,
1st Texas Heavy Artillery, defeated an armada of
Federal navy gunboats and transports and 5,000
invasion troops. Dowling and his 42 men were
able to save Houston and Beaumont from the horrors
of invasion and destruction, which was the fate of
many Southern cities and towns in the War for
Southern Independence.
(Copy Print, M.D. Jones Collection)