Though dated 2 October 1862, this letter was certainly written some three weeks after the previous one, probably on 2 November. Barrier hasn't heard from his father since last he wrote him in September. As he writes, he's just returned from twenty days on a picket post on Core Creek Bridge, 18 miles from New Bern. He saw no action. He asks after his brother and brother-in-law, and requests that his father obtain him "a negro boy" as a servant. He and his company are in good health.