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arrived off the mouth of Sabine Pass. The plan of invasion was sound, but monumentally mismanaged. Four of the flanking gunboats were to steam up the pass at speed and draw the fire of the fort, two in each channel, a tactic which had been used successfully in subduing the defensive fortifications of
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saloon on the first floor. Dowling was described as a likable red-headed
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Dowling: Galway's hero of Confederate Texas', by Timothy Collins and Ann Caraway Ivins; foreword by Edward T. Cotham Jr. Kilnaboy: Old Forge Books, 2013.
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and New Orleans prior to this, when gunboats disabled the forts at close range with their own guns. This time, though, Dowling's artillery drills paid off as the
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seagoing ship could traverse the Pass without great risk of going aground, if it did not follow one of the channels. The inevitable course of any
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with both faces sanded down and with new information carved into them. They were inscribed "Sabine Pass, 1863” on one side, and had a
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Patrick and Bridget Dowling (née Qualter). Following eviction of his family from their home in 1845, the first year of the
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Dick Dowling: Galway's hero of Confederate Texas, by Timothy Collins and Ann Caraway Ivins. Old Forge Books, 2013
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