Sabine Pass
Subtitle: the Confederacy's Thermopylae
By: Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
Series: Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage series ;; no. 7
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Sabine Pass, Battle of, Tex., 1863.
Description: "Edward T. Cotham, Jr., recounts the momentous hours of September 8, 1863, during which a handful of Texans - almost all of Irish descent - under the leadership of Houston saloonkeeper Richard W. Dowling, prevented a Union military force of more than 5,000 men, 22 transport vessels, and 4 gunboats from occupying Sabine Pass, the starting place for a large invasion that would soon have given the Union control of Texas." "Sabine Pass sheds new light on previously overlooked details, such as the design and construction of the fort (Fort Griffin) that Dowling and his men defended, and includes the battle report prepared by Dowling himself. The result is a portrait of a mythic event that is even more provocative when stripped of embellishment."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.