Paul B. Barringer (1857-1941) Paper, PC.306

Typescript reminiscences and family stories (ca. 1800-1865) told by Dr. Barringer, professor at University of Virginia, including descriptions of early Lincoln and Cabarrus counties; purchase of slaves in Charleston, S.C. (1806); travel by stage, train, canal; Concord, Asheville, and Baltimore; camp meetings; incidents during and just after the Civil War; and recollections or anecdotes about Dr. John Bachman, Gen. Rufus Barringer, Judge Victor Barringer, Gen. Thomas Clingman, Jefferson Davis, Peter Forney, Joseph Graham, Gen. and Mrs. "Stonewall" Jackson, Gen. Daniel H. Hill, Abraham Lincoln, Rev. Robert Hall Morrison, Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Major Cucullu of Louisiana, and an Arabian slave named Squash.

Barringer, Paul B.

Bachman, John

Barringer, Rufus

Barringer, Victor

Thomas Lanier Clingman, 1812-1897

Davis, Jefferson

Forney, Peter

Graham, Joseph

Lincoln, Abraham

Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall), Mrs.

Hill, Daniel Harvey

Edmund Kirby-Smith, 1824-1893

Morrison, Robert Hall

Cucullu, Major

Squash (Arabian Slave)

University of Virginia

Confederate States of America

Family

College teachers

Universities and colleges

Slaves

African Americans

Travel

Transportation

Canals

Railroads

Coaching

Reminiscing

Purchasing

Slave trade

Camp meetings

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Generals

Judges

Officer

Physicians

Presidents

Clergy

Lincoln County (N.C.)

Cabarrus County (N.C.)

Charleston (S.C.)

Concord

Asheville (N.C.)

Baltimore (Md.)

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865