The inn is now a small museum. After the crushing Confederate defeat at Five Forks and the loss of the railroad at Sutherland Station, Union forces scrambled to pursue Lee s army and get in front of it. On April 3, two days after Five Forks and one day after Sutherland Station, General George Custer s cavalry caught up with some rear-guard Confederate cavalry under General Rufus Barringer. Namozine Church was a tiny engagement, hardly mentioned in most Civil War histories. Custer suffered 81 casualties here.
Confederate losses are unknown.
One Confederate who was lost was Barringer himself, captured by the Federals and taken to City Point. It turned out to be his lucky day. Into the tent walked Abraham Lincoln. In chatting with Barringer, Lincoln asked him if he knew a Barringer from North Carolina who had served in the United States House of Representatives. Barringer replied that the man in question was his brother.