Rufus Barringer fought on horseback during the Civil War with
General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and rose to lead the North
Carolina Cavalry Brigade in some of the war's most difficult
combats. Now in paperback, Fighting for General Lee: Confederate
General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
details his entire history for the first time. Barringer raised a
company early in the war and fought with the 1st North Carolina
Cavalry from the Virginia peninsula through Second Manassas,
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He was severely
wounded in the face at Brandy Station, during the opening hours of
the Gettysburg Campaign. Because of his severe wound, he missed the
remainder of the Gettysburg Campaign, returning to his regiment in
mid-October, 1863. During his absence, he was promoted to major and
lieutenant colonel. In June 1864, he was promoted to brigadier
general in command of the North Carolina Brigade, which fought the
rest of the war with Lee and was nearly destroyed during the
retreat from Richmond in 1865. The captured Barringer met President
Lincoln at City Point, endured prison, and after the war did
everything he could to convince North Carolinians to accept
Reconstruction and heal the wounds of war. Fighting for General Lee
by Sheridan R. Barringer draws upon a wide array of newspapers,
diaries, letters, and previously unpublished family documents and
photographs, as well as other firsthand accounts, to paint a broad,
deep, and colorful portrait of an overlooked Southern cavalry
commander. Despite its subject matter, the book is a balanced
account that concludes Barringer was a dependable, hard-hitting
warrior increasingly called upon to lead attacks against superior
Union forces. This remarkable new biography teaches us many things.
It is easy today to paint all who wore Confederate gray with a
broad brush because they fought on the side to preserve slavery.
Here, however, was a man who wielded the sword and then promptly
sheathed it to follow a bolder vision. Barringer proved to be a
bold champion of the poor, the black, and the masses-a Southern
gentleman and man decades ahead of his time that made a difference
in the lives of North Carolinians.
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