为李将军而战：南部邦联将军鲁弗斯·巴林格和北卡罗来纳骑兵旅

鲁弗斯·巴林格（Rufus Barringer）与北弗吉尼亚州李将军的军队在内战的大部分时间里都骑马作战，并在战争中最艰难的几场战斗中晋升为北卡罗来纳骑兵旅的指挥官。为李将军而战：邦联将军鲁弗斯·巴林格和北卡罗来纳骑兵旅首次详细讲述了他的整个历史。
巴林格在战争初期组建了一个连队，与从弗吉尼亚半岛到第二马纳萨斯、夏普斯堡、弗雷德里克斯堡和钱塞洛斯维尔的第一支北卡罗来纳骑兵作战。在葛底斯堡战役的开放时间，他在白兰地车站脸部受了重伤。由于伤势严重，他错过了葛底斯堡战役的剩余时间，于1863年10月中旬回到了他的团。不到三个月，他就成了一名中校，到1864年6月，他成了北卡罗来纳旅的准将。北卡罗来纳旅在与李作战的剩余时间里作战，在1865年从里士满撤退时几乎被摧毁。被俘的巴林格在城市角与林肯总统会面，经历了牢狱之灾。战后，他竭尽全力说服北卡罗来纳州人接受重建，并治愈战争创伤。
谢里登·R·巴林格（Sheridan R.Barringer）的《为李将军而战》利用了大量的报纸、日记、信件、以前未公开的家庭文件和照片，以及其他第一手资料，描绘了一位被忽视的南方骑兵指挥官的广博、深刻、多彩的肖像。尽管它的主题是，这本书是一个平衡的帐户，得出结论巴林格是一个可靠的，强硬的战士，越来越多地呼吁领导对上级联盟部队的攻击。
这本了不起的新传记教给我们很多东西。今天，很容易用一把宽大的画笔画出所有穿邦联灰色衣服的人，因为他们站在一边为维护奴隶制而战斗。然而，这里有一个人，他挥舞着剑，然后迅速将剑套上鞘，以跟随更大胆的愿景。巴林格被证明是穷人、黑人和大众的勇敢捍卫者——他是一位南方绅士，比他的时代早了几十年，改变了北卡罗来纳人的生活。
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Fighting for General Lee: Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
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, 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. Within three months he was a lieutenant colonel, and by June 1864 a 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for General Lee by Sheridan R. Barringer draws upon a wide array of newspapers, diaries, letters, and previously unpublished family documents and photographs, as well as other firsthand accounts, to paint a broad, deep, and colorful portrait of an overlooked Southern cavalry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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