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Dick Dowling At Sabine Pass; A Texas Incident In The War Between The States.

By Frank X. Tolbert. Copyright 1962, second printing. HB DJ 159 pages. 

"On September 8, 1863, a handful of Confederate artillerymen, most of them Houston and Galveston Dock workers of Irish birth, turned back an armada of 21 Union warships at the Sabine Pass in Texas. The battle is sometimes referred to as the Thermopylae of the Civil War, and in this incredible but completely authentic account of the Union defeat, Frank X. Tolbert re-creates all the gallantry and blazing action of a victory which Jefferson Davis himself described as without parallel in ancient or modern warfare"

 

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