EL DORADO HILLS, CA: June 14, 2016 – Sheridan R. Barringer’s Fighting for General Lee was recently selected to receive the Military Order of the Stars and Bars’ prestigious Douglas Southall Freeman History Award for 2016.

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Sheridan Barringer’s Fighting for General Lee Winner of
2016 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award
EL DORADO HILLS, CA: June 14, 2016 – Sheridan R. Barringer’s Fighting
for General Lee was recently selected to receive the Military Order of the Stars
and Bars’ prestigious Douglas Southall Freeman History Award for 2016.
This award is given for the best published book of high merit in the field of
Southern history, beginning with the colonial period to the present time.
According to the guidelines set by the Order, “The award shall be given only to
works of high merit. If no work is submitted that meets the high standards of
the Freeman History Award regulations, no award shall be given that year.”
“I knew this was a special study when I accepted it for publication, so having
author Sheridan Barringer win this prestigious award is especially gratifying,”
explained Managing Director Theodore P. Savas. “Butch has been working on
General Barringer’s history for many years, and it’s long past time that this cavalry general had a solid
history. Winning the Douglas Southall Freeman Award is really icing on the cake. All involved are truly
humbled.”
About the Book: 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. Drawing upon a wide array
of newspapers, diaries, letters, and previously unpublished family documents and photographs, as well
as other firsthand accounts, author Sheridan Barringer paints a broad, deep, and colorful portrait of an
overlooked Southern cavalry commander. Despite its subject matter, the book provides a balanced
account that concludes Barringer was a dependable, hard-hitting warrior increasingly called upon to lead
attacks against superior Union forces.
About the Author: Sheridan R. “Butch” Barringer lives with his wife, Pam, in Newport News,
Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Tech and worked as a mechanical engineer and project manager
for nearly four decades with NASA. Butch’s interests include studying Civil War history, with an
emphasis on the cavalry, and physics and cosmology. Butch has two other books under contract with
Savas Beatie: a biography of General Thomas L. Rosser, and an edited memoir written by Rosser. He is
currently at work on a biography of Colonel Thomas T. Munford.
About Savas Beatie LLC: Savas Beatie LLC is a leading military and general history publishing
company. Read more about Fighting for General Lee, including excerpts and an interview with the
author: http://tinyurl.com/zshso5t.
Contact: Michele Sams, Savas Beatie LLC
Email: michele@savasbeatie.com
Phone: 916-941-6896, Fax: 916-941-6895
Savas Beatie LLC