Fighting for General Lee: WINNER of the DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN AWARD


Rufus Barringer fought on horseback through most of 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. 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,...