Download or read book The Soldier Joker George Horatio Derby written by Richard A. Paskowitz, M.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derby was a soldier, cartographer, humorist, engineer, and practical joker. He surveyed the Sacramento Valley, the Tulare Valley, San Diego Harbor, the mouth of the Colorado River. His humor concepts were used and "expanded" by Mark Twain. He knew and interacted with General Winfield Scott, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman. He was a classmate of George Pickett, George McClellan, and Stonewall Jackson. Derby lived in San Diego from 1853-54 in the Derby-Pendleton House, now located on the Whaley House grounds.