Civil War Living History & Battle Re-enactment Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Sabine Pass: Friends of Sabine Pass Battleground will present Dick Dowling Day, re-creating a Civil War Battle, Sept. 7-8. The weekend of living history camps honors Dick Dowling and his ragtag band of men who bested the Union on Sept. 8, 1863. Amazing living history exhibits and reenactments of the famous battle.

Saturday, a memorial ceremony will be conducted in honor of those men who fought bravely and those who lost their lives here, deaturing a period color guard, rifle and artillery salutes, invocation, keynote speaker, and the Lone State Pipe Band.

Saturday afternoon's battle reenacement will be loosely based on the 1962 Union attack on the old Fort Sabine and the subsequent occupation of Sabine City by Union troops.

Sunday's battle will be the repulse of the Union occupiers and subsequent Confederate victory.  Both battles will involve the movement of the largest armies we've ever fielded as well as thunder and smoke from sixteen artillery pieces!