Dale County AlArchives News.....James K. Dowling  (Dying Wish) June 23, 1976
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The Southern Star
Standard Article Tells Of Dying Wish to Be Buried At Claybank
	
Editor's Note- The editor of The Dale CountY Standard added the following 
poignant account of the death of Confederate soldier, James K. Dowling, in 
Pensacola and the subsequent burial at Claybank Cemetery.
 The Article "How it strikes a Stranger" written by Traveler to the Southern 
Churchman ,of Richmond, Va.,brings to the mind of the senior editor a very sad 
remenescence of the late war. I think it was in September,1861 while Bragg's  
army was stationed at, and around the Navy Yard at pensacola the writer visited 
the marine hospital and when he got inside there on a couch lay a Young Soldier 
who was then passing through the last struggles of death, He had been a gallant 
and faithful Soldier not fearing any enemy or shirking any duty and was always 
at his post of duty till disease claimed him for its victim and was consigned 
to this hosptal by the surgeon of the regiment for treatment. Being our friend 
and Comrade we went in to see him, he was almost speechless and could only 
speak in a low whisper; he beckoned and when  we held our ear near, he said in 
a wispher " I want to be sent home and buried at Claybank Church ". This was 
all he said and the last words he ever spoke, for before the sun set that 
evening Jas. K. Dowling of Capt. McCalls Co., 7th Ala. Vols was a Corpse, his 
request was carried out and he was sent home and buried at Claybank church, and 
this no doubt was the grave the young soldier referred to by Traveler ~The Dale 
County Standard.

  Reprinted in The Southern Star Oct. 3, 1979 pg 3B.

James K. Dowling b. Mar. 3 1840 d. Sept. 6, 1861
  S/o Noel & Sarah  Dowling.

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