Gene C. Armistead

Gene C. Armistead (1947- ) was born and raised in Demopolis, Alabama, and earned his B.A. degree from Samford Universtiy, Birmingham, Alabama. He worked as a police officer during college, served as a Marine Corps Officer in Vietnam, and is retired from a management career in the electronics components industry. He has written several published articles about neglected groups of the Civil War including the Confederate Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, Black Confederates, and white Southern unionists. He is the author of "Horses and Mules in the Civil War" (2013) and (with Robert D. Arconti) "'An Arch Rebel Like Myself.' Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas" (2018). He resides in Escondido, California.