"An Arch Rebel Like Myself" : Dan Showalter & Civil War in California and Texas

Description: TITLE: "An Arch Rebel Like Myself": Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas AUTHOR: Gene C. Armistead & Robert D. Arconti PUBLISHER: McFarland (2018)CONDITION: Good+ paperback. Spine straight, uncreased, with bottom edge bumped during original shipping. No scratching or rubbing wear to cover, but lower front corner is slightly bent with shallow crease line across it (that indentation also projects onto the first sixty pages or so beneath it). No markings. Description: Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West among the pro-Union press. He gained notoriety as the survivor of California's last political (and actual, fatal) duel, for his role in the display of a Confederate flag in Sacramento, and for his imprisonment after an armed confrontation with Union troops. Escaping to Texas, he distinguished himself in the Confederate service in naval battles and in pursuit of Comanche raiders. As commander of the 4th Arizona Cavalry, he helped recapture the Rio Grande Valley from the Union and defended Brownsville against a combined Union and Mexican force. Refusing to surrender at war's end, he fled to Mexico, where he died of a wound sustained in a drunken bar fight at age 35. SHIPPING: Item ships as is (no refunds, exchanges, or returns). Shipping is by USPS Media Mail.BOOK WILL BE CAREFULLY PACKAGED in a custom-sized cardboard book mailer for strong protection in transit.

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