Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Remembrances for September Addendum

 

23 Sept.

Major Richard Dowling, the son of recent Irish immigrants, he turned back a large Yankee invasion force in Sabine Pass in 1863 with a comparatively much smaller force.  Many places in southeast Texas were named in honor of him.

https://easttexashistory.org/items/show/164

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6813103/richard-william-dowling

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dowling-richard-william

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

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