Mrs. Epps, a Richmond resident and nurse at Seabrook Hospital, writes to Mathias Barrier of the death of his son, William Lafayette Barrier, at "ten minutes to eleven o'clock" on the night of 17 May 1864. He died lucid and wishing to see his parents. He'd been wounded in the fighting near Brook Church, three miles outside Richmond, on 12 May. Epps provides Mathias with her address, should he wish to learn more, and says his son will be buried at Oak Wood Cemetery.