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)

CALCASIEU GREYS -- August, 2017

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Confederate image of the month.

Texas Confederate Monument
Vicksburg National Military Park

CALCASIEU GREYS July 2017

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Private Thomas D. Hilliard and Corporal John Hilliard, brothers

Company C, 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Thomas was killed

May 19, 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia.

(Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress)

CALCASIEU GREYS June, 2017

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The magnificent General Robert E. Lee Monument pulled down by the Anti-Confederate
New Orleans political bosses under the cloak of darkness by their masked henchmen, May 2017.

CALCASIEU GREYS May 2017

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Unidentified Confederate cavalryman

(Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress)

CALCASIEU GREYS, APRIL 2017

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Unidentified Louisiana Confederate officer, as indicated
on his La. Pelican belt buckle. The gold braid on his sleeve
indicates he is an officer.
(Liljenquist Family collection, Library of Congress)

Calcasieu Greys, March 2017

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CONFEDERATE OF THE MONTH

Confederate Heavy Artillery Early in  the War.