Winner, 2016, 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 ...
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Winner, 2016, 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, 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for General Lee by Sheridan R. Barringer draws upon a wide array of newspapers, diaries, letters, and previously unpublished family documents and photographs, as well as other firsthand accounts, to paint a broad, deep, and colorful portrait of an overlooked Southern cavalry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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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (USA) Presumed first edition. Owner's name which has been scratched out with black marker to front end paper, owner's nameto inside bck cover, no other markings, Near Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, 472pp, index. B&Wphotos and illus. This is a series of paperson archaeological wood developed from a symposium sponsored by the Cellulose, paper, and Textile Division at the 19th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in 1988. (2.1 JM LVR 200/b5.
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Good; Hardcover; 1989, American Chemical Society; Former library copy with standard library markings; Moderate wear to covers; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Good binding with straight spine; Blue covers with image of wooden ship, and title in white lettering; 473 pages; "Archaeological Wood: Properties, Chemistry, and Preservation (Advances in Chemistry Series), " by Roger M. Rowell & R. James Barbour.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. 0841216231. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise text clean and solid; no dust jacket; Advances In Chemistry Series, No. 225; Ex-Library; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 473 pages.