[snippy_about_it]

Good morning feather.

[stand watie]

the sabine pass fight was PECULIAR to say the least.

in addition to several "ladies of doubtful reputation", LT Dowling had several YANKEES in his command. they are thought to have been union deserters, but nobody living knows for sure.

free dixie,sw

[rustbucket]

Dick Dowling Bump

Another version of the Sabine Pass affair is HERE.

The famous Sabine Pass affair was not the only heroics of Dick Dowling. In the summer of 1862 Federal forces occupied Sabine Pass and the fort there and for months kept making raids into Beaumont from the fort. In early 1863 flush with success at helping repulse the Federal invaders at Galveston, Dick Dowling and the Davis Guards in two cottonclad ships came after and captured two Federal blockade ships, 13 cannon, and 139 prisoners, thereby reopening the port of Sabine Pass. See: Dowling and the Morning Light.