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SUMMARY:LIVE Community Chat with Mike Harrington
DESCRIPTION:Sunday, September 8th is the sesquicentennial of the Battl
 e of Sabine Pass. The occasion is being celebrated as \"Dick Dowling D
 ays.\"\nThough a relatively small engagement, Sabine Pass represented 
 perhaps the finest single day's work of any Irish unit, North or South
 , in the American Civil War. At Sabine Pass, on the Texas coast near t
 he Louisiana border, Galway native Lt. Richard W. \"Dick\" Dowling, a 
 Houston saloon keeper, commanded the Jeff Davis Guards, a company of t
 he 1st Texas Heavy Artillery Regiment made up wholly of other Irish im
 migrants to antebellum Texas. With an amazing display of artillery exp
 ertise, Dowling's tiny band of Texas Irishmen -- fewer than 50 in all 
 -- drove off a virtual Union armada carrying about 5,000 Federal infan
 tymen, bent on invading southeastern Texas and marching overland to Ho
 uston. The President of the Confederacy hailed Dowling's triumph as th
 e \"Thermopylae of the Confederacy.\"  The Davis Guards received the 
 only medals for valor ever awarded by the Confederate Congress. (These
  medals were made of large Mexican silver pesos hung from Irish green 
 ribbons, and the few that have survived are virtually priceless.)Dowli
 ng's company saved Houston the fate of Atlanta, and a large granite no
 mument in a public park in central Houston honors the memory of Dowlin
 g and his Davis Guards.\nMike Harrington will join us in the Main Cha
 t Room here at TheWildGeese.com at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss t
 he events 150 years ago at Sabine Pass as well as the festivities taki
 ng place at the big \"Dick Dowling Days.\"\n\nFor more information vis
 it https://thewildgeese.irish/events/live-community-chat-with-mike-har
 rington
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LOCATION:TheWildGeese.com Main Chatroom
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 el Harrington":https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/CMichaelHarrington
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