CALCASIEU GREYS September 2019

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Maj. Richard W. Dowling,
HERO OF THE BATTLE OF SABINE PASS
Sept. 11, 1863, Sabine Pass, Texas

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Pvt. Burton Marchbanks, 30th Texas Cavalry
Mortally wounded at the Battle of Honey Springs, Okla.

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Col. Robert Tignal Jones, 12th Alabama Infantry

Jones was born Oct. 8, 1815 in Virginia. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in 1837, 13th in class standing. He served as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Artillery of the U.S. Army. He was in the Seminole Indian War of 1837-38, and fought in the Action of Locha-Hatchee, June  24, 1838; and in the Cherokee Nation, 1838, while emigrating the Indians to the West. He was promoted to first lieutenant July 7, 1838 and resigned July 31, 1838. Jones moved to Perry County, Alabama where he became a planter.Jones was a captain in the Alabama Militia 1849, 50. He also served as president of the Cahawba, Marion, and Greensboro Railroad, Ala. from 1835-57. He was married to Lucy Maria Jones. During the War for Southern Independence, he became colonel of the made colonel of the 12th Alabama and was killed in action at the Battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862. He is buried at Live Oak Cemetery, Semla, Dallas County, Alabama. (Photo courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Ala.)

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The Souths Defender Monument, Calcasieu Parish Courthouse, Lake Charles, La.
Dedicated June 3, 1915.
(Photo by Mike Jones)

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Pvt. William R. Clack, 43rd Tennessee Infantry
(Library of Congress)

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LT. T.N. Cook, 41st Tennessee Infantry

One of the Immortal 600, Confederate P.O.W.s

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Sgt. William Crawford Smith, 12th Va. Inf.

He fought in the First Battle of Manassas,

the Seven Days Campaign, Second Manassas,

and the Battle of Gettysburg. He was wounded

twice.  (Wikipedia)