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An Arch Rebel Like Myself: Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas
Contributor(s): Armistead, Gene C. (Author), Arconti, Robert D. (Author)
ISBN: 1476674612     ISBN-13: 9781476674612
Publisher: McFarland & Company
OUR PRICE:   $39.55  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2018030550
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7" W x 9.6" (0.9 lbs) 246 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
 
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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.