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An Arch Rebel Like Myself - Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas (Paperback)
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An Arch Rebel Like Myself - Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas (Paperback)
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Dan Showalter, a Pennsylvanian transplant to the Yosemite Valley,
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 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 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.
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