Dick Dowling and the Company F Texas Heavy Artillery Jefferson Davis Guards CSA, Sabine Pass, TX
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Monument to confederate company who defended Texas at Fort Griffin in the Battle of Sabine Pass, 1863. Memorial is located in the Sabine Pass Battlefield Park, 6100 Dick Dowling Drive, Sabine Pass, TX
Waymark Code: WMQQTW
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/20/2016
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On September 8, 1863, as Union warships attempted to navigate up the Sabine Pass between Texas and Louisiana, the ships were fired upon, and some sunk, by defenders at Fort Griffin along the pass under the leadership of Lt. Dick Dowling. A monument at the battlefield remembers Lt. Dowling and the men of Company F Texas Heavy Artillery.
The monument is topped with a statue of Dowling and lists his men's names and their activity here.
Front of the monument:
Center Panel:
In Memory of Lt. Richard W. Dowling and his men
Texas remembers the faithfulness and valor of her sons and commends their heroic example to future generations
Erected by State of Texas 1936
Front Left Panel
The Men Who Fought
2nd LT. N.H. Smith
Dr. Geo. H. Bailey
Patrick Abbott
Michael Carr
Abner R. Carter
Pat Clair
James Corcoran
Thos. Daugherty
Hugh Degan
Michael Delaney
Dan Donovan
Jno. Drummond
Michael Eagan
Pat Fitzgerald
James Fleming
John Flood
William Gleason
Tom Haggerty
William Hardy
John Hassett
John Hennessey
James Higgins
Tim Higgins
Front Right Panel
With Dowling Were
Tim Hurley
William L. Jett
Pat Malone
Alex McCabe
Pat McDonnell
Tim McDonough
John McGrath
John McKeever
Michael McKernan
Dan McMurray
Jno. McNealis
Mich. Monoghan
Peter O'Hara
Lawrence Plunkett
Maurice Powers
Edw. Pritchard
Charles Rheins
Mich. Sullivan
Pat Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan
Mathew Walsh
John T. Westley
John W. White
Joseph Wilson
Inscriptions - Rear of the Monument:
Center Panel
At this site on Sept 8th, 1863 Dick Dowling and forty-seven men comprising Company F Texas Heavy Artillery Jefferson Davis Guards CSA from a mud fort repulsed an attack made by four warships and twelve hundred men of the Federal Army thus saving Texas from invasion by the enemy
Left Panel
Thus it will be seen that we captured with forty-seven men, two gunboats mounting thirteen guns of the heaviest caliber and about three hundred and fifty prisoners. All my men behaved like heroes, not a man flinched from his post. Our motto was Victory or Death.
Official Report of Lt. Richard W. Dowling
Right Panel
There is no parallel in ancient or modern warfare to the victory of Dowling and his men at Sabine Pass considering the great odds against which they had to contend.
Jefferson Davis
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1936
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: State of Texas
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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