" The possibly-titular character of this novel has a girlfriend  who is the daughter of the "Freezer King of Sepulveda Boulevard," and a character in this novel named  Johnston Wade, who walks around with a briefcase containing $100,000 is repeatedly cal ed "Roy Earle" by  the main character.
The last lines of this book claim that there are "more and more endings… faster and faster until this  book is having 186,000 endings per second." The possibly-titular character of this novel has a girlfriend  who is the daughter of the "Freezer King of Sepulveda Boulevard," and a character in this novel named  Johnston Wade, who walks around with a briefcase containing $100,000 is repeatedly cal ed "Roy Earle" by  the main character. Many chapters in this novel, which includes a description of a "Daring Cavalry Raid on PG&E", are concluded with a flashback to the aftermath of a battle in which the title character was  supposed to have taken part, and this novel itself is narrated by Jesse, who meets the main character  while drinking on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. For 10 points, identify this novel by Richard  Brautigan whose main character, Lee Mel on, claims descent from Augustus C. Mel on, the possibly-fiction  titular Civil War-era military man.
The last lines of this book claim that there are "more and more endings… faster and faster until this  book is having 186,000 endings per second.
A Confederate General from Big Sur