Munford was the senior cavalry colonel in the Lee's ANV. He not a member of the West Point elite and was repeatedly overlooked for promotion to brig. gen., despite having commanded a brigade in many battles and a division at the end of the war.
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's Langley Research Center. Butch's interests include the Civil War, with an emphasis on the cavalry, physics, cosmology, and reading. Butch is the author of Fighting for General Lee: Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade (2016). He is currently working on a biography of Confederate Colonel Thomas T. Munford.
