Richard William Dowling, , purported remark to a Confederate council of war urging him not to fight. May M. Pray, Dick Dowling's Battle (1936), chapter 10, p. 108. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989). During the Battle of Sabine Pass, September 8, 1863, the Confederates at Fort Griffin did defeat the Union forces trying to occupy southeast Texas. In forty-five minutes, Dowling and his forty-six men captured 350 prisoners, cannon, and two gunboats, whihttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winning