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	Second Battle of Sabine Pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Second Battle of Sabine Pass took place on September 8, 1863, and was the result of a Union expedition into Confederate-controlled Texas during the American Civil War.
		As a consequence, the expedition entered the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico.
		The Battle of Sabine Pass was of little tactical or strategic significance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Battle_of_Sabine_Pass (551 words)

	Sabine Pass and Galveston Were Successful Blockade-Running Ports
		The first blockade-runner at Sabine was Captain Henry Scherffius, an immigrant German, who was already engaged in the Orange export lumber trade at the outbreak of the war.
		During the epidemic, and until the burning of the Union gunboat "Dan" at Sabine lighthouse on the night of Jan. 8, 1863, the Sabine Pass and Lake were under Federal control.
		On a subsequent voyage in April, 1863, the Beaumont schooner was captured offshore from Sabine Pass with 112 bales aboard.
	www.wtblock.com /wtblockjr/blockade.htm (2343 words)

	Articles related to THE BATTLE OF SABINE PASS
		One year after the battle, Confederate Chief Engineer Valery Sulakouski made plans to build a redoubt or fortified structure to hold four field pieces on Taylor’s Bayou to be placed between the railroad bridge and the mouth of the bayou at the lake.
		The group then moved across the lake and toward Sabine Pass to be ready to battle the blockaders on the next morning, January 21, 1863.
		Master C.W. Lamson of the gunboat/steamer Rachel Seaman, a blockader off Sabine Pass, sent a message to Commodore H. Bell whose flagship was blockading off Galveston that his vessel was leaking so badly in her upper works in rough seas so as to damage his ammunition and injure the health of his crew.
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	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Sabine Pass had 460 inhabitants by 1880, making it the second largest town in Jefferson County.
		The construction of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad in 1881 replaced the older rail line, which had been abandoned during the Civil War, and seemed to bode a bright future for the city.
		The population of Sabine Pass had grown to 1,500 by 1984, when thirty-nine rated businesses were reported there.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/hjs2.html (584 words)

	1863 - Gurupedia
		Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
		June 14 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester - A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of
		Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
	www.gurupedia.com /1/18/1863.htm (1057 words)

	Sabine Pass Lighthouse, Louisiana at Lighthousefriends.com
		Cameron Preservation Alliance — Sabine Pass Lighthouse, Inc. was formed in 1999 to rescue the lighthouse.
		Although the Battle of Sabine Pass was fought practically in the shadow of the tower, the lighthouse survived the war remarkably well.
		In 1898, a 1,350-foot-long raised boardwalk built of cypress wood was extended from the tower to the main channel west of the lighthouse.
	www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=151 (1607 words)

	Learn more about 1863 in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		September 8 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
		November 24 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
		November 25 - American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/18/1863.html (1216 words)

	Sabine River
		The Sabine River begins in Northeast Texas and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
		During the American Civil War on September 8, 1863, the Second Battle of Sabine Pass was fought at the mouth of the Sabine.
		In the battle, a small Confederate force thwarted a Union invasion of Texas.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/s/sa/sabine_river.html (114 words)

	Where Was Fort Grigsby? Historian May Have Answer.
		After the fort was abandoned in the summer of 1863, these slime guns were two of the six used by Lt. Dick Dowling to mangle two Union warships at the second Battle of Sabine Pass.
		At the same moment, a squadron of three Union ships was in Sabine Lake, depredating Sabine Pass and the railroad along the lake's shores.
		Fort Sabine, at Sabine Pass, had been abandoned on September 24, 1862; its 30 defenders having spiked their guns and retreated to Beaumont with their supplies and stores.
	www.wtblock.com /wtblockjr/fort2.htm (582 words)

	Heroine of Sabine Pass - Dispatch Depot Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One day, an immigrant resident of Sabine, known locally as "Dutch Margaret," entered the hotel dining room and without known provocation, "proceeded to villify in flguard language" the innkeeper while she was serving meals.
		Tragedy struck Sabine Pass in July, 1862, when Jefferson County's worst epidemic, the dreaded "yellow jack" {yellow fever}, was imported aboard a blockade-runner.
		In February, 1900, two of the three aged and infirm surviving Irishmen of the Battle of Sabine Pass, Michael Carr and P. O'Hara, were residents of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Austin, and they were given train tickets to spend a two-week vacation re-visiting the remains of old Fort Griffin at Sabine Pass.
	civilwartalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=21983 (2109 words)

	September 8 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
		1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Belarusians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
		1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
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		The article entitled Lesson 43, The Battle of Sabine Pass, was according to an article in the Houston Triweekly Telegraph on November 4, 1863, written by a participant in the battle.
		When after their most glorious hour at the Battle of Sabine Pass, five more deserted including a sergeant, the unit was not only embarrassed but very angry at the men they considered traitors.
		Others argued the desertion occured after the battle, that it was the battle that was to be commemorated and that since they were there fighting valiantly at the time they should be included.
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	The Civil War at a Glance
		Their first encounter, the Battle of the Wilderness, opens on May 5 and for the next 40 days the armies remain locked in deadly embrace.
		In several battles around Chattanooga between October and November, Grant's armies defeat Bragg's troops, forcing them to retreat to Dalton, Georgia, where Bragg is succeeded in command by Gen. Joseph E. Johnson.
		Only a small percentage were big battles like Gettysburg or Vicksburg; most were relatively small affairs, many of them forgotten today.
	nationalatlas.gov /articles/history/a_civilwar.html (3893 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1863 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		January 11 - American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
		June 14 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
		October 5 - The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road starts operations in Brooklyn, New York; this is now the oldest right-of-way on the New York City Subway, the largest rapid transit system in the United States and one of the largest in the world.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1863.htm (1858 words)

	1863 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		June 14 - American Civil War: Battle of Winchester - A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester Virginia.
		September 8 - American Civil War: Second Battle Sabine Pass - On the Texas - Louisiana border at the mouth of the River a small Confederate force thwarts a invasion of Texas.
		November 25 - American Civil War: Battle of Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee Union forces led by General Ulysses Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
	www.freeglossary.com /1863 (1604 words)

	2005 ABPP Project Grant Awards Announcement
		Fought on September 8, 1863, the second Battle of Sabine Pass saw a small Confederate command at Fort Griffin turn back a U.S. Navy flotilla attempting to reduce the fort and occupy Texas.
		The September 1781 battle of Eutaw Springs was the last major engagement between Continental and British forces in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
		The two battles, siege, and ultimate British surrender at Saratoga amounted to a decisive chapter of the Revolutionary War.
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	A Union Soldier's Account of the Battle of Sabine Pass
		Our expedition to Sabine Pass on the mouth of the Sabine River was an ill-starred one, so there is nothing in the localpapers as a result.
		Signal was made to leave for the Southwest Pass, but night and a gale came on and the river steamers were at a disadvantage.
		We were sixty hours getting back to the passes horses nearly ruined for want of water for four days.
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	American First Credit Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Second Battle of Sabine Pass - The Second Battle of Sabine Pass took place on September 8, 1863, and was the result of a Union expedition into Confederate-controlled Texas during the American Civil War.
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	1863
		* June 14 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester - A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
		* September 8 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas- Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
		* November 24 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
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	Today in Old West History - True West Magazine Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the summer of 1863, the Union commander in the region, General Nathaniel Banks, launched an expedition to retake Sabine Pass.
		Dowling's men had one major advantage: Their guns were fixed on the narrow channel of Sabine Pass, through which the Yankees would have to sail in order to approach Fort Griffin.
		The battle commenced in the afternoon, and the Confederate cannons quickly cut into the Union flotilla.
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	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Lt. Dick Dowling & the Battle of Sabine Pass(9/8/1863)- Feb. 4th, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The young commander of Fort Griffin during the 1863 Battle of Sabine Pass, Richard William Dowling, was born near Tuam, County Galway, Ireland in January of 1837.
		During the battle, the Confederate "heroines of Sabine Pass," Kate Dorman and Sarah Vosburg, drove a buggy down to the fort and delivered coffee, doughnuts and a gallon of whiskey to the weary and grimy soldiers.
		But despite his great victory at Sabine Pass, the outcome of the great war had to be decided on the fields of Virginia.
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	Wisconsin War LetterS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		June 30 - Battles of Glendale and White Oak Swamp, VA.July 1 - Battle of Malvern Hill, VA.
		Second Battle of Lexington, MO; Battle of Cedar Creek, VA.
		December 15-16 - Confederate Army of Tennessee destroyed in Battle of Nashville.
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		The "terribly mutilated" body of prostitute Annie Chapman is found in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.
		It is the second known victim attributed to Jack the Ripper.
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	Battle Summary: Sabine Pass II, TX
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		Description: About 6:00 am on the morning of September 8, 1863, a Union flotilla of four gunboats and seven troop transports steamed into Sabine Pass and up the Sabine River with the intention of reducing Fort Griffin and landing troops to begin occupying Texas.
		As the gunboats approached Fort Griffin, they came under accurate fire from six cannons.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/tx006.htm (219 words)

	America at War
		December 7 - Battle of Prairie Grove, AR; Battle of Hartsville, TN.
		November 30 - Battle of Franklin, TN; Battle of Honey Hill, SC.
		December 20 - Second Battle of Saltville, VA.
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		September 8, 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
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