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Subject: [BARRINGER] RUFUS BARRINGER
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:42:57 EDT
Thanks Erin, Mary and all for giving us a new piece of puzzle to add to our
records on Rufus, son of Paul Barringer/Elizabeth Brandon, grandson John Paul
Barringer and Catherine Blackwelder.
NOTES from my records of RUFUS BARRINGER
Had three marri. 3-4 children, 2 males not named. At the time of his death,
his will states he was survived by his wife, Margaret and three sons.
Marriage/Death NC 1846-1855 by Broughton
Rufus Barringer of Concord and Eugenea E. Morrison of Lincoln Co m-23 May 1854
Lincoln Co. NC
Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Co. NC pg. 15, by Curtis Bynum
Barringer, Rufus; Morrison, Eugenia E.; C.C. Henderson; 1 May 1854;
m-23 May 1854 by P.T. Penick (MG); "Rufus Barringer of Cabarrus Co"
Marriage/Death Notices in Raleigh Register & NC State Gazette pg. 480
Barringer, Rufus of Concord to (Eugenea) E. Morrison of Lincoln Co, My. 23,
Lincoln Co, R.R. (Raleigh Register) Je. 3, 1854 (print date June 3, 1854)
Marriage/Death NC 1867-87 by Broughton
Gen. Rufus Barringer and Margaret Taylor Long m-6 Sep 1870 Concord NC
He was a lawyer
!Service: 1848-50 represented Cabarrus Co, in House of Commons.
!Service: Conf Army, Gen, a Whig 1861, Capt. of Co.F, NC Calvary
1863 promoted to Maj. & Lieut Col., 1864 Brig. Gen.
Found two other sons, * 3 Rufus, mother Rosalie, * 4 Osmond, mother Margaret
in
the "Wheelers Reminisences" under The Barringer family. A small listing of the
Barringer descendants
1850 Cab. Co., NC census, pg. 449, family # 730,
shows Rufus 28, b. Cab. NC, attorney, single man
Birth record in LDS 2 Dec 1821, Cab. NC, Marriage 1 May 1854 Linc.Co. NC (this
is marriage bond date only)- Eugenia Morrison
1860 Cab. NC census, pg. 58, family 453, shows Rufus 38, (Eugenia d. 1858)
Anna 5, Paul 3, Has a Catherine Barringer 29,(b. 1831) living with them, but
shown at bottom so not wife.
Bibliography on the Colonial Germans of North America by Emil Meynen, pg 478
shows he was a Confederate General, son og Gen. Paul Barringer b. 2 Dec 1821
at
Popular Grove, Cab. NC
"Who's Who" pg 35
RUFUS BARRINGER (1821-1895)
After serving for two years as captain, Rufus Barringer rose to brigadier in
less than a year. A native North Carolina lawyer and politician, he had
misgivings about secession but enlisted anyway. His assignments included:
captain, Company F, 1st North Carolina Cavalry (May 16, 1861); major, lst NC
Cavalry (May 16, 1861); major, 1st NC Cavalry (August 26, 1863); lieutenant
colonel, 1st NC Cavalry (October 17, 1863); lieutenant colonel, 4th NC
Carolina
Cavalry (temporaily assigned January 1864); brigadier general, CSA (Jun 1,
1864); and commanding Gordon's (old) Brigade, W.H. F. Lee's Division, Cavalry
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (June 4, 1864-April 3, 1865). As a company
commander, he served at the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Brandy
Station, where he was severely wounded. After Gettysburg his rapid rise
began.
He served through the Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns and in January 1864 was
transferred to the temporary command of the 4th NC Cavalry. This unit was
transferred out of the brigade and Barringer continued to serve with it in the
Department of NC and Southern Virginia until the death of Gen. Gordon prompted
his promotion and assigment to the old brigade. He led the unit through the
Petersburg operations and in the Appomattox Campaign in which it was virtually
destroyed. Barringer was captured at Namozine Church on April 3, 1865, and
was
not released until July. Active in Republican politics, he supported
Reconstruction after the war.
"Eastern Cabarrus History 1986" by George Franklin Hahn
Gen. Rufus Barringer, another son of Gen. Paul Barringer, had a distinguished
career as a lawyer and statesman before and after the Civil war, and as a
brigadier general in the Confederate army. He died at his home at Charlotte in
1895.
(Copy from Nita Le Maire-not sure what book came from)
Written by Marvin Krieger
RUFUS CLAY BARRINGER (2 Dec 1821-3 Feb 1895)
Confederate Army officer and legislator
Barringer's grandfather, John Paul, known as "Pioneer Paul" was born in the
Duchy of Wurttemberg on 4 June 1821. He left Germany on the ship Phoenix and
arrived in Philadelphia on 30 Sep 1743. He and his first wife, Anna Eliza
Eisman, originally settled in the Wyoming Valley of PA. In 1753 they migrated
to Dutch Buffalo Creek, now part of Cabarrus County. Anna Barringer died in
1777, leaving two children, John and Catherine. John Paul later married
Catherine Blackwelder and this marriage produced seven children. Paul, the
eldest, served in the state legislature, as a Concord magistrate, and as a
general in the War of 1812. He was a prosperous planter and a successful
merchant. His marriage to Elizabeth Brandon, daughter of a distinguished NC
family, produced ten children.
Rufus Clay Barringer, their ninth child, was born in Cabarrus County (NC). He
was graduated from The University of NC in 1842 and studied law with his
brother, Daniel Moreau, a law partner of Chief-Justice Richmond M. Pearson.
After completing the bar requirements, Rufus BArringer settled in Concord and
from 1848 to 1850, represented Cabarrus Co. in the House of Commons. In 1854,
at the age of 33 he married Eugenia Morrison, his first wife. She died in
1858,
and in the winter of 1861 while serving with the Confederate forces he married
Rosalie Chunn of Charlotte.
Politically, Rufus Barringer was a Whig who favored Negro suffrage. Although
he
was devoted to the Union and the Constitution, he placed NC's interest first.
He urged the NC Assembly to arm the state, and, when NC seceded from the
Union,
he was among the first to volunteer. On 16 May 1861, Barringer became captain
of Co. F, 1st NC Cavalry. He was promoted to major on 26 Aug 1863 and to
Lieutenant colonel in Nov. of that year. In June 1864 he was commissioned
brigadier general and took over command of NC's cavalry brigade, which
consisted of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Regiments. Barringer fought in 76
actions and was wounded three times. He was cited for gallantry at the battles
of Willis' Church, Brandy Station, Auburn Mills, Buckland Races, Davis' FArm,
Reams' Station (where he commanded a division) and Chamberlain Run, which was
the last decisive Confederate victory in VA. Barringer was captured on 3 Apr
1865 at Namozine Church. While confined at City Point prison, he met President
Lincoln, in Lincoln's first encounter with a Confederate general.
After the war, Barringer returned to politics and advocated NC's acceptance of
the Reconstruction Acts of 1867. He served in 1875 NC Constitutional
Convention
but was defeated in 1880 when he ran for lieutenant governor. In 1865,
Barringer moved to Charlotte. He maintained law offices there and in Concord
until his retirement from the bar in 1884 and was a key figure in establishing
NC's rail system. Barringer devoted the later part of his life to detailing a
series of cavalty sketches that described the significant battles in which he
had participated. Before he died, he completed a history of the Ninth
Regiment.
His third wife, Margaret Long of Orange Co., and three sons survived him.
SEE; R.W. ALLISON,"HISTORY OF CABARRUS CO. AND CONCORD" (MS, Concord Public
Library); Paul Barringer, "The Natural Bent" (1949); Cabarrus County Court
House
(Concord), for Rufus Barringer's will and land transfers; Charlotte Democrat;
C.A. Evans, ed. Confederate Military History, vol. 4 (1899); Marvin Krieger,
"Warren Clay Coleman" (M.A. thesis, Wake Forest University,1969)
Marvin Krieger
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